chris lyal the natural history museum, london & anna l. weitzman
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Precision in accessing the descriptions, keys and other contents of digitized taxonomic literature: the INOTAXA prototype. Chris Lyal The Natural History Museum, London & Anna L. Weitzman National Museum of Natural History, Washington. Things are changing:. Trends: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Precision in accessing the descriptions, keys and other
contents of digitized taxonomic literature: the INOTAXA prototype
Chris LyalThe Natural History Museum, London
&Anna L. Weitzman
National Museum of Natural History, Washington
Trends:• Increase in digital internet search power• Increasing digital access to legacy and new
taxonomic literature • Increasing user expectations of finding
required information – With precision– Rapidly
Things are changing:
Requires: • Means of finding and extracting precise
information / data needed– highly atomized content– efficient storage– powerful and flexible interface– tailored to meet user needs
Realising potential & meeting expectations
Highly atomised content allows
• reconstruction of taxonomic text in various formats (species pages, keys, checklists, monographs, etc)
• construction of checklists for geographic areas and taxa
• automatic links to updated to taxonomy because of interoperability with name authority files
• automatic links to updated place names because of interoperability with gazetteers
• linkage to all available related databases
INOTAXA Prototype recently placed on web to investigate potential of interface for:
• Simple search• Simple search term restricted by context• Image search• Advanced search with Boolean logic• Browse taxonomically, geographically or by person• Comparison of retrieved text with original• Extraction and download of specimen data from
literature
INOTAXA Prototype
Simple Search• Search any string in the content • Data from all works may be searched or browsed
simultaneously • Each work may be searched alone• Allows context-sensitive searching of data
– Geography– taxon, collector, author etc)
INOTAXA Prototype
INOTAXA Prototype
Simple Search• context-sensitive searching of data
(geography, taxon, collector, author etc)
INOTAXA Prototype
Results list display: INOTAXA Prototype
INOTAXA Prototype Treatment display:
INOTAXA Prototype Key display:
Advanced search • Searches across 53
indexed fields
INOTAXA Prototype
Advanced search • Uses Boolean logic• allows sorting of
specimen data retrieved
INOTAXA Prototype
Advanced search • Returns treatments,
keys, specimen data
INOTAXA Prototype
Search history available
Advanced search • Returns treatments,
keys, specimen data
INOTAXA Prototype
Atomised specimen data
• Compatible with automated georeferencing programs• Map specimens over time• Correlate with collectors’ itineraries to improve natural
language locality information• Compatible with DwC & ABCD, so that they can be
made available to GBIF and others• Identifications more reliable than those from specimens• Literature offers more data, especially in some fields
(especially Entomology)
INOTAXA Prototype
GBIF data for all Attelabidae
INOTAXA Prototype
GBIF data for all Attelabidae + INOTAXA data from a single 1995 paper on the genus Omolabus
Browse Taxon hierarchies: (extracted from each work digitized)• classifications in which taxon appears • treatments • keys • images • specimen records • geography (distribution statements) • people (collectors, authors) • publications
INOTAXA Prototype
INOTAXA Prototype
INOTAXA Prototype
Browse Geographic hierarchies:
• Specimen records• Gazetteer• People• Publications
INOTAXA Prototype
• Accepted names • All names• Keys• Images
INOTAXA Prototype
INOTAXA Prototype
INOTAXA Prototype
Browse People hierarchy
• Person detail• Specimens collected• Specimens
determined• Collecting sites
• Publications• Treatments• Keys• Images of• Images by
INOTAXA Prototype
INOTAXA Prototype
Prototype at http://www.inotaxa.orgFeedback sought from all – please see demo
Next steps• Multiple classification comparison• Improve automation with:
– Additional mark-up scripts– Automated intelligence