@rdmpage
http://iphylo.blogspot.com
@mycokeys
10.3897/mycokeys.5.4302
Where are:
• The users?
• The questions?
• The science?
Phylogeography
Taxonomy
Our questions span multiple databases
(“paths” in network)
Specimens and diseases
PMID:948206
http://biostor.org/reference/102054
http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/215921922/
BHL and GBIF as biomedical databases
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/bhl-and-gbif-as-biomedical-databases.html
Metrics
In an attempt to live up to that increasing demand for documentation, the leadership of the Natural History Museum of Denmark has issued an order to its curatorial staff - The staff members are requested to document which publications from 2011, written entirely by external scientists, that in one way or another are based on material in the collections of the Museum.
http://markmail.org/message/opv2we7fkmro2nen@TAXACOM
https://twitter.com/#!/search/10.1371%252Fjournal.pone.0036881
https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176
https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176
http://www.museum-analytics.org/
Impact of collection
Cited, linkable specimens
NMNH Vertebrate Zoology Herpetology Collections 11194
CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
MCZ Herpetology Collection
Herpetology Collection (University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center)
9619
6720
5818
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/gbif-specimens-in-biostor-who-are-top.html
The story of the web(it’s all about links)
http://… http://…
http://… http://…
link
,
http://… http://…
http://…
http://… http://…
http://…
is ais a author ofauthor of
personperson
FredFred
bookbook
The Semantic web:
“The future of the web…and always will be” – Peter Norvig (Google)
http://… http://…
http://…
is ais a author ofauthor of
personperson
FredFred
bookbook
http://… http://…
http://…
Without links we will #fail to deliver the cool stuff
http://… http://…
link
,
Links = pairs of identifiers
Problem: nobody sees value in the links
@mycokeys
10.3897/mycokeys.5.4302
PublishersPublishers
GenomicsGenomics
MuseumsMuseums
Taxon
databasesTaxon
databases
Question 1:
When will we value links enough to create and maintain them?
#@$! GBIF keeps changing URLs!
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/dear-gbif-please-stop-changing.html
Citation network = valuable links
Question 2:
How do we link in the absence of identifiers?
When shall we link?http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/when-shall-we-link.html
When shall we link?
• Just in case (hard coded)– Identifiers– e.g., DOIs
• Just in time (link when needed)– Instructions to make link– OpenURL
doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-187
?journal=BMC Bioinformatics&volume=12&spage=187
Just in case
Just in time
The challenge:
How do we make persistent links in the absence of persistent
identifiers?
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