A series published in The Bryologist Started in 1951 209 lists published 29,429 records

Author Period Lists ComputerizedWilliam L. Culberson 1951-1978 1-100

Robert S. Egan

1979-1991 101-143 1-1432006- 201- 201-

Theodore L. Esslinger 1991-2006 144-200 144-200

Recent Literature on Lichens: web services and further developments

• A series published in The Bryologist• Started in 1951• 209 lists published• 29,429 records

• Distributed on diskettes from early 1990’s• On the web since 1997• Url: http://nhm.uio.no/botanisk/lav/RLL/


Mattick’s Literature Index

• Card index built by Wilhem F. Mattick (1901-1984), Berlin• c. 6000 records, for the period 1875-1950• Computerized by Peter Scholz and Harrie Sipman• Added c. 3500 records, now going back to 1536• Common search page with RLL since 2001

RLL Supplement

• For adding lacking records• Open to anyone since 2001• 366 records







External linksWeb site

PDF file

Link

PDF file

Web site

Uploaded pdf files to the RLL site

Evaluation of journal/volume.Hardcoded in the RLL script

Connected to RLL record.Uploaded by the users

Journals/volumes providing free PDF files and linked to RLL records:

Aktuelle Lichenologische Mitteilungen, (vol. 14-15, NF 1-10)Australasian Lichenology (from vol. 58) Bulletin of the California Lichen Society (all volumes, except the most recent)Buxbaumiella (vol. 1-15, 45-62)Fritschiana (all volumes)Fungal Diversity (all volumes)Mycotaxon (vol. 1-65)Opuscula Philolichenum (all volumes)

RLL provides links to pdf files for more than 1000 records

http://nhm.uio.no/botanisk/lav/RLL/AL




http://nhm.uio.no/cgi-bin/rll.pl?sq=0&au=&fr=1536&to=2008&jo=&t1=&t2=&t3=&t4=&t5=&casc=&gen=Xanthoparmelia&epi=stenophylla&tp=-&down=N&r0=&r1=&rn=&ws=w&dia=0&st=a&fo=s&RLL=x&Mat=x&Supl=x


fo=k(short) fo=f

(field delimited)

fo=e (EndNote) fo=x

(BibTeX) fo=w(XML)





http://nhm.uio.no/cgi-bin/rll.pl?t1=Phyllopsora&lyear=10&st=y&sdir=r&fo=w


http://nhm.uio.no/cgi-bin/rll.pl?t1=Phyllopsora&max=5&st=y&sdir=r&fo=w


http://nhm.uio.no/cgi-bin/rll.pl?t1=Phyllopsora&max=5&st=y&sdir=r&sq=5&fo=w


<html><title>TEST</title><body><h2>Another simple <i>Phyllopsora</i> page</h2><img src="http://nhm.uio.no/botanisk/lav/Photo_Gallery/Phyllopsora/swinscowii_G=Peru+Loreto_D=20060923_O=E-Timdal_C=ET_H=O-L144659_I=DSCN1486.JPG"><br><i>Phyllopsora swinscowii</i>

<p><table width="800" border="1"> <caption><b>The latest papers on <i>Phyllopsora</i></b>, 5 at a time</caption> <thead> <tr bgcolor="silver"> <th>Author<th>Year<th>Paper<th>Abstract <tbody>

<?php$sq = $_GET[sq];$nq = $sq + 5; $nq1 = $nq + 1; $nq5 = $nq + 5;$url = "http://nhm.uio.no/cgi-bin/rll.pl?t1=Phyllopsora&max=5&st=y&sdir=r&sq=$sq&fo=w"; # The URL to the RLL web service$xmlfile = file_get_contents("$url"); # The request to the RLL web site, loading the

# returning xml file into the variable called $xmlfile$recs = explode('<record>', $xmlfile);foreach ($recs as $rekord) { if ($i == 0) {$i = 1;} # Drops the first element (text before the first record) else {

$field2 = preg_replace('/<\W+\w*>/', '', $rekord); # Removes end-tag $field = preg_split('/<\w+>/', $field2); # Splits using start-tag

$author = $field[5]; $year = $field[6]; $paper = "$field[7] $field[8] <b>$field[9]</b>: $field[10]"; $abstract = $field[14]; print "<tr bgcolor=\"ivory\">"; print "<td><font size=2>$author"; print "<td><font size=2>$year"; print "<td><font size=2>$paper"; print "<td><font size=2>$abstract"; }}?>

</table><p>

<?phpprint "<a href=\"http://nhm.uio.no/botanisk/lav/RLL_WS2.PHP?sq=$nq\">Get the next 5 papers ($nq1 – $nq5)</a>";?></body></html>


An implementation: Aptroot & Sparrius’ web page “Pictures of tropical lichens”




RLL now supports the Digital Object Identifier



Acknowledgements

Thanks to Laurens Sparrius for advice on how to build web services

Documents

A series published in The Bryologist Started in 1951 209 lists published 29,429 records