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Extracting information from previous taxonomic revisions
Torsten Dikow
Biodiversity Synthesis CenterField Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA
Importance of Specimen data from Taxonomic Revisions
» GBIF – relies on museum databases
» Specimens from taxonomic revisions◊ often scattered in several museums◊ not all might serve data to GBIF
» Afrotropical Asilidae◊ Revisions by Jason Londt & myself◊ 21537 specimen records (1977–2003)◊ multitude of uses for such a database
» Specimen records can be submitted to GBIF a posteriori◊ Problem: double counting of specimens?◊ No unique identifier for each specimen
Harvesting other information from Taxonomic Revisions
» Illustrations
» Photographs
» Maps
» Identification Keys – Phoenix software
» Create a virtual library of everything that is known about a species
» Information can be used for EOL species pages
» Might be only information available for megadiverse taxa !
PLazi & GoldenGATE Editor
» Plazi http://plazi.org/
“Plazi is an association supporting and promoting the development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature.”
“Enhance submitted taxonomic treatments by creating taxonx XML versions.”
» GoldenGATE http://plazi.org/?q=GoldenGATE
“The GoldenGATE Document Editor is a visual editor for marking up documents in XML.”
Scanning of Literature & Text recognition
» Biodiversity Heritage Library http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
» Desktop scanner
» Scan originals if possible (not copies/xeroxes) !
» Text recognition◊ OCR (Optical Character Recognition)◊ Adobe Acrobat◊ ABBY FineReader http://www.abbyy.com/
» Windows only» Plazi help http://plazi.ch/ocr/madagascar_ocr.html
Revisions
» EOL species pages
» Descriptions
» Illustrations
» ...