1. Bibliography of Life:
the vision
Dave Roberts &
Vince Smith
Natural History Museum, London
dmr@nomencurator.org

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Virtual Biodiversity
How do you read about these species?
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Antipia Lepsi, 1927
Arachnidiopsis Penard, 1918 [nomen dubium]
Benthontophrys Foissner & Gschwind, 1988
Bipalmatum Gajewskaja, 1924
Ceratospathula Foissner, 2003
Chanostoma Daday, 1884
Conocladium Schröder, 1914
Euploia Lohmann, 1920 [nomen dubium]
Hyloplotes Butschinsky, 1897
Isosticha Kiesselbach, 1936
Litosolenius Stokes, 1893
Macrocytopharynx Li & Wang, 2002
Orcavia Tucolesco, 1962
Pachystomos Rudzinska, 1952
Parablaste Cragin, 1889
Pompholyxia Fabre-Domergue, 1886
Rhynchodinium Cunha & Penido, 1927
Sigalasia Delphy, 1938 [nomen dubium]
Spirocytopharynx Li & Wang, 2002
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3. ViBRANT
Virtual Biodiversity
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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4. ViBRANT
Virtual Biodiversity
For names, at least, tools appeared
I . P . N . I
TL-2
Index Kewensis
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Nomenclator Zoologicus
(Neave)
Zoological Record
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5. ViBRANT
Virtual Biodiversity
Bibliographies
(many sources)
Bibliography
of Life
Happiness
De-duplication
Standardisation
Dirty bucket
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Clean bucket
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Virtual Biodiversity
So why aren’t we there yet?
Citation formats and standards:
Journals are comparatively easy, but
proceedings, reports, yearbooks, books etc.
make it harder to standardise.
Old literature is intrinsically more difficult.
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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7. ViBRANT
Virtual Biodiversity
Generate marked-up text
Get full text access
Add metadata to help searching
De-duplicate & standardise bibliography
Harvest and aggregate bibliographies
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8. ViBRANT
Virtual Biodiversity
The aim is not to let your computer read for you,
but to help you choose the most appropriate article to read.
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