2. Plazi Treatment Repository
Institutionalize access to treatments
publications or (more frequently) sections of publications documenting the
features or distribution of a related group of organisms (called a “taxon”, plural
“taxa”) in ways adhering to highly formalized conventions. Some of these are over a
century old. [Catapano, 2011]
Each taxonomic name usage has a treatment
>> 50 M treatments published: the knowledge of the world’s species
4. Treatment?
structureed
Treatment
(1)
1. Publication conversion workflow
Journal run
Atrticle
Treatment
Vendor - level
General markup
vendor
scientist
Scientist / crowd
structured
treatment (2)
and data
markup programs
services
Domain - level
Domain specific
markup
Publication
prospective legacy
Taxpub (1) (zookeys)
Taxpub (2) BDJ
scripting scientist
scientist
crowd
Work Data Work OpenAccess
5. 1. Publication conversion workflow
Extraction of treatments
• Art. 19 CPA-CH (internal use)
• § 50 II CPA-DK, art. 42 h CPA-S (extended collective
license)?
• „fair use“?
• future copyright and database right exceptions for
research purposes?
6. 1. Publication conversion workflow
«please give me the treatment of taxon X»
no yes
Treatment of taxon X?
Get name
Name present
TreatCit present
?
Get treatment
Treatment of taxon X
yes
yes
AuthorY present
TreatCit Treatment Citation (=BibRef+page#)
BibRef Bibliographic Reference
AuthorY Author and year of publication of a taxon
yes
Get treatCit
PDF present
?
yes
Extract treat Extract treatment
?
yes
Enter name
?
Good Bye
no
no
?
yes
BibRef present
?
yes
PDF present
?
Get PDF
yes
yes
Create TreatCit
?
yes
TreatCit
Find it externally
no
Find it externally
no
Add PDF to BLR
no
Good Bye
no
yes
Right treatment?
yes
no
no
Good Bye
no
GNUB
REFBANK SRS
BLR (open
/closed)
DMA
BLR Biodiversity Literature Repository
DMA DocumentMain Archive
GNUB Global Name Usage Bank
RefBank Bibliographic Reference Database
SRS Treatment Server
7. 1. Publication conversion workflow
Biodiversity Literature Repository
• Open sector:
• not copyrightable text and data
• public domain documents
• works, whose protection period is expired
• works with CC0-waver or CC-BY-license
• Closed sector:
• sensitive data
• copyright protected works (for internal use only)
8. 2 Barriers
Reasons for not opening up
Financial interests of publishers
Financial interests of scientific societies
Concerns for third world scientists about costs of publishing
Protecting competitive advantage
Some of the data has been acquired under certain restrictive conditions
Copyright has been transferred to a publisher
Copyright owner unknown
Risk adversity
Misconceptions
Copyright as a guarantee of citation
Copyright as a sign of the quality of work
I collected the data, therefore they are mine
Tradition
I never thought about it
9. 3. Ongoing developments
Bouchout Declaration
Blue List
Study of extensive collective licences for Switzerland
10. 4. Stakeholder Involvement
Signatories of the Bouchout Declaration
Pro-iBiosphere project team members
Collecting societies in Switzerland
11. 5 Progress in implementing legal interoperability
Under discussion in the followup process of the Bouchout Declaration
12. 6 . The level of information about legal issues
• Egloff W, Patterson D, Agosti D, Hagedorn G 2014. Open exchange of scientific
knowledge and European copyright: The case of biodiversity information.
ZooKeys 414, 109-135. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.414.7717
• Egloff W, 2014. Access to scientific and technical information - between social
needs and private interests. (English translation of: Egloff W, 2014. Der Zugang zu
Fachinformationen – zwischen gesellschaftlicher Notwendigkeit und privatem
Verwertungsinteresse In: Hansjürgen Garstka, Wolfgang Coy (Hg.), Wovon - für
wen - wozu. Systemdenken wider die Diktatur der Daten, Helmholtz-Zentrum für
Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, S. 349-373, ISBN 978-3-86004-298-
4. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10378
• Patterson DJ, Egloff W, Agosti D, Eades D, Franz N, Hagedorn G, Rees J, Remsen DP
2014. Scientific names of organisms: attribution, rights, and licensing . BMC
Research Notes 2014, 7:79 doi:10.1186/1756-0500-7-79,
• Agosti, D., W. Egloff. 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the
Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53, doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-53