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Chris Lyal The Natural History Museum, London & Anna L. Weitzman

Precision in accessing the descriptions, keys and other contents of digitized taxonomic literature: the INOTAXA prototype. Chris Lyal The Natural History Museum, London & Anna L. Weitzman National Museum of Natural History, Washington. Things are changing:. Trends:

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Chris Lyal The Natural History Museum, London & Anna L. Weitzman

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  1. Precision in accessing the descriptions, keys and other contents of digitized taxonomic literature: the INOTAXA prototype Chris Lyal The Natural History Museum, London & Anna L. Weitzman National Museum of Natural History, Washington

  2. Things are changing: Trends: • Increase in digital internet search power • Increasing digital access to legacy and new taxonomic literature • Increasing user expectations of finding required information • With precision • Rapidly

  3. Realising potential & meeting expectations Requires: • Means of finding and extracting precise information / data needed • highly atomized content • efficient storage • powerful and flexible interface • tailored to meet user needs

  4. Highly atomised content allows • reconstruction of taxonomic text in various formats (species pages, keys, checklists, monographs, etc) • construction of checklists for geographic areas and taxa • automatic links to updated to taxonomy because of interoperability with name authority files • automatic links to updated place names because of interoperability with gazetteers • linkage to all available related databases

  5. INOTAXA Prototype INOTAXA Prototype recently placed on web to investigate potential of interface for: • Simple search • Simple search term restricted by context • Image search • Advanced search with Boolean logic • Browse taxonomically, geographically or by person • Comparison of retrieved text with original • Extraction and download of specimen data from literature

  6. INOTAXA Prototype Simple Search • Search any string in the content • Data from all works may be searched or browsed simultaneously • Each work may be searched alone • Allows context-sensitive searching of data • Geography • taxon, collector, author etc)

  7. INOTAXA Prototype

  8. INOTAXA Prototype Simple Search • context-sensitive searching of data (geography, taxon, collector, author etc)

  9. INOTAXA Prototype Results list display:

  10. INOTAXA Prototype Treatment display:

  11. INOTAXA Prototype Key display:

  12. INOTAXA Prototype Advanced search • Searches across 53 indexed fields

  13. INOTAXA Prototype Advanced search • Uses Boolean logic • allows sorting of specimen data retrieved

  14. INOTAXA Prototype Advanced search • Returns treatments, keys, specimen data

  15. Search history available

  16. INOTAXA Prototype Advanced search • Returns treatments, keys, specimen data

  17. Atomised specimen data • Compatible with automated georeferencing programs • Map specimens over time • Correlate with collectors’ itineraries to improve natural language locality information • Compatible with DwC & ABCD, so that they can be made available to GBIF and others • Identifications more reliable than those from specimens • Literature offers more data, especially in some fields (especially Entomology)

  18. INOTAXA Prototype GBIF data for all Attelabidae

  19. INOTAXA Prototype GBIF data for all Attelabidae + INOTAXA data from a single 1995 paper on the genus Omolabus

  20. INOTAXA Prototype Browse Taxon hierarchies: (extracted from each work digitized) • classifications in which taxon appears • treatments • keys • images • specimen records • geography (distribution statements) • people (collectors, authors) • publications

  21. INOTAXA Prototype

  22. INOTAXA Prototype

  23. INOTAXA Prototype • Accepted names • All names • Keys • Images Browse Geographic hierarchies: • Specimen records • Gazetteer • People • Publications

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  25. INOTAXA Prototype

  26. INOTAXA Prototype • Publications • Treatments • Keys • Images of • Images by Browse People hierarchy • Person detail • Specimens collected • Specimens determined • Collecting sites

  27. INOTAXA Prototype

  28. INOTAXA Prototype Prototype at http://www.inotaxa.org Feedback sought from all – please see demo Next steps • Multiple classification comparison • Improve automation with: • Additional mark-up scripts • Automated intelligence

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