Dear Ward,

That's great!

One quibble, I would expect the value for http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#namePublishedInID to be a URI, not a string literal. In other words, instead of:

dwc:namePublishedInID <![CDATA[ http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026243 ]]> </dwc:namePublishedInID>

I would have:

<dwc:namePublishedInID rdf:resource="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026243" />

This means a client will interpret this as a resource and could decide to go and fetch it. If you store the DOI as a string clients won't know to "follow their nose" and retrieve details about the publication with that DOI. This isn't made clear in the Darwin Core spec, so I've cc'd this to the TDWG-Content mailing list in case anyone there has any comments.

Regards

Rod

On 8 Dec 2011, at 12:20, Ward Appeltans wrote:

Dear Rod

The original description references and DOIs are now also part of the WoRMS RDF output. E.g. http://lsid.tdwg.org/summary/urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:590007

Note, the RDF seems to be cached at the TDWG site, because the new terms do not yet show up in older records.

Thanks! Best regards Ward

From: Roderic Page [mailto:r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk] Sent: woensdag 7 december 2011 16:40 To: taxacom Cc: gread@actrix.gen.nz; Ward Appeltans Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Finding your species in Mendeley

Dear Ward,

On 7 Dec 2011, at 11:38, Ward Appeltans wrote:

Dear Rod,

Good points, we have extended the WoRMS webservice, and added the elements 'link' and 'fulltext' to the Source output object.

That's great. Will these appear in the LSID metadata as well, because that's what I use to harvest WoRMS records (and is arguably what anyone wanting to do Semantic Web-style integration will use.

With regards to the mapping interface and colour blindness, there is a option to switch the base layers (to countries for example). Is this OK for you? http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=590097

I guess my point is that the default map should not be uninterpretable to people like me who have trouble distinguishing red and green when used together (the EOL maps are equally bad, where as GBIF is much better.

Linking taxa to the original source reference (incl DOI/handle links and/or full texts if possible) is a priority in WoRMS, so I'm eager to look at more automated ways (if quality and citation completeness is acceptable).

Automation we can do, quality depends heavily on the original citation, which for older literature can be pretty messy. If by completeness you mean completeness of the citation record you'd want to add to WoRMS, I'd argue this matters less than identifiers, because if you have a DOI you can retrieve the citation at any time (albeit with a few caveats). Obsessing with citations is what got us in this mess in the first place ;)

Regards

Rod

Thanks. Best regards Ward WoRMS/VLIZ

-----Original Message----- From: Geoffrey Read [mailto:gread@actrix.gen.nz] Sent: woensdag 7 december 2011 9:22 To: Roderic Page Cc: taxacom; Ward Appeltans Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Finding your species in Mendeley

Hi Rod,

Fine. Tech points Ward's business. I only want to point out that you have only the bare minimum ION shows you, which is very far from "this record complete". You don't seem to have the hierarchy even, just the names, and no authors. If Thompson Reuters was in the business of creating WoRMS-like records like that one (not difficult just takes someone a bit of time), we volunteer database workers could all fold our tents and get back to the taxonomic coalface (sorry, mixed metaphors there). Although they wouldn't be allowing free access, now would they? Perhaps it's good they don't then (see below). Plus you've matched the doi perfectly to ION's record. Which is indeed clever. Of course Thompson Reuters could provide that initially if they wanted to - but I imagine doing that would adversely affect some of their middle man services.

I like that ZooKeys is auto loading its new papers into the Species-Id website. Ideally all taxonomy will be available structured like that, and auto loadable into WoRMS and there would be little manual work for WoRMS editors from the new pubs anymore.

Geoff

On Wed, December 7, 2011 7:43 pm, Roderic Page wrote:

On 7 Dec 2011, at 01:15, Geoffrey Read wrote:

http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=590097

Nice, but can't resist three comments:

1. It's great that this record has a DOI, but the same information doesn't

appear in the metadata for the LSID, which means the only way I could extract this information from WoRMS is by screen scraping (yuck)

2. iTaxon already has this record complete with DOI

http://iphylo.org/~rpage/itaxon/?search=Notodasus+harrisae

3. When will map makers learn about red-green colour blindness! I can't

see the red dot indicating the type locality unless I zoom in and the green background momentarily disappears.

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