1. The Future of Informatics in Digital Literature – or Literature and it’s (Digital) Future Donat Agosti and Terrance Catapano Plazi TDWG, Woods Hole, September 28, 2010

2. Literature, the tool to formalize our knowledge, and make it part of the global knowledgebase.

3. < 15% of taxonomists opt for Open Access Source: Zootaxa, publisher of ca 15% of all new taxonomic names

4. “The current scholarly communication system is nothing but a scanned copy of the paper based system.” Van de Sompel & Lagoze, 2009, The Forth Paradigm.

5. E.g. BHL‘s emphasis on scanning and images of text…

6. E.g. BHL‘s emphasis on scanning and images of text… … and little efforts (by third parties) to provide better access

7. „An articulated semantic structure facilitates simpler algorithms acting on World Wide Web text and data and is more feasible in the near term than building a layer of complex artificial intelligence to interpret free- form human ideas using some probabilistic approach.“ Ginsparg, 2009, The Forth Paradigm.

8. Quantity vs precission

9. Howard Ratner, Nature: Nature on Mobile: http://river-valley.tv/conferences/stm-innovations-seminar-2009

10. A semantically enhanced, linked XML document based on clean OCR

11. TaxonX

12. Text XML document Mystrium leonie Mystrium leonie n. sp. Fig 1 D - F HOLOTYPE WORKER: TL 3.95, HL 1.02, HW 0.95, CI 93, SL 1.30, SI 137, PW 0.73, ML 0.38. Mandible outer margin strongly curving to a sharp apical tooth, the apex parallel to the anterior clypeal margin. (Holotype with material in mandibles, so mandibles and anterior clypeus $ described below from paratypes.) Median clypeus....

13. Treatment

14. Treatment ≠ ©

15. - Get LSID from Hymenoptera Name Server for names; ZooBank? -Add new names - Get bibliographic Metadata from HNS (MODS) - Get bibliographic Guids from bioguid (or EDIT?) - Get geographic long/lat from geonames.org Plazi workflow: GoldenGate mark up as an example -Get Guids for - CBOL - NCBI - specimen - images -.....

16. Plazi Search and Retrieval Server: Access to data TAPIR, SPM You human machine

17. Materials examined from literature in GBIF

18. Facebook tool to mark up legacy publications

19. Mark-up comes at an (exorbitant) cost…

20. Mark-up comes at an (exorbitant) cost, if done at the wrong time

21. Shift from legacy to prospective publishing

22. Taxpub NLM DTD

23. Taxpub NLM DTD: a collaboration between National Library of Medicine Zookeys Plazi

24. Taxpub NLM DTD: taxonomic domain specific extension of the NLM Publishing and Archiving DTD NLM DTD Taxpub DTD

25. Taxpub/NLM DTD + production worklow Zookeys

26. XML PrintPDF HTML Other Sites External resources

27. Treatment + external links

28. Treatment + external links: GUID / LSID

29. Now that we will have LSIDs in your content in PMC, I was looking for an LSID resolver so that we can build links to all of this content. But, the only place that I was able to resolve your LSIDs was on your zoobank.org/?lsid= service. I could not resolve them on lsid.tdwg.org or bioguid.info/lsid.php. Perhaps I don’t understand how LSIDs are supposed to work, but I thought that any LSID resolver should be able to resolve them. If only your local resolver resolves them, then are they really LSIDs or are they just zoobank IDs dressed up like LSIDs?zoobank.org/?lsid= lsid.tdwg.orgbioguid.info/lsid.php Email from Jeff Beck, NCBI

30. Why do we do all that?

31. Technically, we are far beyond the doable

32. Technically, we are far beyond the doable, we need your input: Why do you want to have a (taxonomic) publication?

33. Why do you want to have a (taxonomic) publication? External links? Materials Citations? Descriptions? Credit?

34. Where is your data so that it can be linked? How will it be be standardized?

35. http://plazi.org Thank you very much! Donat Agosti and Terrance Catapano agosti@plazi.org