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Bibliography of Life: the vision
Dave Roberts & Vince SmithNatural History Museum, [email protected]
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Antipia Lepsi, 1927Arachnidiopsis Penard, 1918 [nomen dubium]Benthontophrys Foissner & Gschwind, 1988Bipalmatum Gajewskaja, 1924Ceratospathula Foissner, 2003Chanostoma Daday, 1884Conocladium Schröder, 1914Euploia Lohmann, 1920 [nomen dubium]Hyloplotes Butschinsky, 1897Isosticha Kiesselbach, 1936 Litosolenius Stokes, 1893Macrocytopharynx Li & Wang, 2002Orcavia Tucolesco, 1962Pachystomos Rudzinska, 1952Parablaste Cragin, 1889Pompholyxia Fabre-Domergue, 1886Rhynchodinium Cunha & Penido, 1927Sigalasia Delphy, 1938 [nomen dubium]Spirocytopharynx Li & Wang, 2002
How do you read about these species?
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Librarians wish ...
but, while search tools like Google scholar, Google books, Web of Science etc. are getting better
and reference management tools like EndNote, RefMan, Zotero, Mendeley etc. help ...
we’re not there yet.
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I . P . N . I
Nomenclator Zoologicus(Neave)
Zoological Record
TL-2
Index Kewensis
For names, at least, tools appeared
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Bibliographies(many sources)
Dirty bucket Clean bucket
Happiness
De-duplication
Standardisation
Bibliographyof Life
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So why aren’t we there yet?
Journals are comparatively easy, but proceedings, reports, yearbooks, books etc. make it harder to standardise.Old literature is intrinsically more difficult.
Citation formats and standards:
Author names:No standard way to handle initials; forenames; translitorated names; national and cultural conventions; prefixes and suffixes (e.g. von, van, de, ap, etc.)
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
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De-duplicate & standardise bibliography
Add metadata to help searching
Get full text access
Generate marked-up text
Harvest and aggregate bibliographies
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The aim is not to let your computer read for you, but to help you choose the most appropriate article to read.