Holy Grail of Digital Legacy Taxonomic Literature

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This seems so simple. And it is, conceptually. But nearly impossible to implement given gaps in citation resolvers for legacy taxonomic literature.

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I wanted this in 2006 & I still want it now…

Excerpted from:

Botanicus.org: Prototyping a Web 2.0 Interface to Digitized Taxonomic Literature. Taxonomic Databases Working Group, St. Louis, Missouri, 2006.

User draws a box on image

Gets raw OCR

Selects incorrect text

5. Names View

Corrects text, clicks “Submit & View”

Gets link to reference & clicks thru