[Zoobank-list] petition for guaranteed public access topublicly-funded research results

[Donat Agosti]

Hi Paddy

Certainly, I can bring such issues up. If EOL is not open access, then why
bother? To make this fly, it will need a huge human impact, since a lot of
the data you finally need can not entirely be generated by machine (unless
you accept large errors) and even need some experts input.

In a related matter: We are close now to have GoldenGate, our semiautomatic
mark up tool to produce valid  taxonx document based on OCR-ed taxonomic
publications. Excuse my ignorance, but I would like to have the chance to
compare a couple of text files and run them through your findit tool, but I
would like that the names it finds are marked up not just indexed. Is there
a chance? We have for that FAT implemented, and it runs well, but there are
plenty of names in the pubs such as Generic names, single species epithet
and others which are difficult to find.

Donat





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topublicly-funded research results

Donat

could you make sure this issue is raised at the workshop. 
 I am sure it will be.  We have so far been assuming EoL 
will be open access, and will point to information that is 
either open access or requires some kind of registration 
or fee for access.    The sustainability model is 
currently being developed at the Field Museum, and I hope 
that it retains this style of thinking.

Paddy


On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:40:59 +0100
  "Donat Agosti" <agosti at amnh.org> wrote:
> [Sorry for cross posting with Taxacom]
> 
> Here a petition for guaranteed public access to 
>publicly-funded research,
> which is a prerequisite for building up ispecies, 
>encyclopedia of lifes,
> Zoobank, in short providing the best possible access to 
>our science.
> 
> In the wake of the publication of the report from the 
>"EU Study on the
> Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific 
>Publication Markets of
> Europe" a consortium of organisations working in the 
>scholarly communication
> arena is sponsoring a petition to the European 
>Commission to demonstrate
> support for Open Access and for the recommendations in 
>the report.
> 
> Signatures may be added on behalf of individuals or 
>institutions. 
> 
> Please register your support for Open Access in this 
>way. To sign the
> petition, please go to   <http://www.ec-petition.eu/>
> http://www.ec-petition.eu/
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------ 
> The sponsoring organisations are JISC (Joint Information 
>Systems Committee,
> UK), SURF (Netherlands), SPARC Europe, DFG (Deutsches
>Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany), DEFF (Danmarks 
>Elektroniske Fag- og
>Forskningsbibliotek, Denmark).
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------ 
> 
> 
> 
> Dr. Donat Agosti
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