Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach.
Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach.
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DOI：
10.1186/1756-0500-2-53
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发表时间：
2009-03-30
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Egloff W
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作者：
Agosti D;Egloff W
我们对世界物种的大部分知识都记录在生物多样性文献的语料库中，超过一亿页，并在自然历史收藏中估计有20亿至30亿件标本。但是，这一知识体系几乎完全是纸质印刷形式，无法通过互联网直接获取。为了将这一文献数字化，必须在目前阻碍其发展的技术、法律的和社会问题领域开辟新的领域。分类学文献似乎特别注定要发生这样的转变。Plazi成立的主要目标是将印刷的和最近的“数字化”分类学文献转化为语义支持的增强型文档。这包括创建一个测试文献体、一个对其逻辑内容建模的XML模式（TaxonX）、一个标记编辑器的开发（GoldenGATE）还允许通过生命科学标识符（LSID）增强与外部资源的链接的文件，这是一个出版物和书目标识符发布的存储库，一个为标记内容提供服务的专用服务器（Plazi搜索和检索服务器，SRS）和语义工具来挖掘信息。Plazi的工作流程旨在尊重版权保护，并通过遵守国际版权法中存在的例外和限制来实现提取。Plazi数据库中的信息-分类处理以及出版物的元数据-属于公共领域，因此可不受任何限制地用于进一步的科学研究，无论是否载于受版权保护的出版物中。
A large part of our knowledge on the world's species is recorded in the corpus of biodiversity literature with well over hundred million pages, and is represented in natural history collections estimated at 2 – 3 billion specimens. But this body of knowledge is almost entirely in paper-print form and is not directly accessible through the Internet. For the digitization of this literature, new territories have to be chartered in the fields of technical, legal and social issues that presently impede its advance. The taxonomic literature seems especially destined for such a transformation. Plazi was founded as an association with the primary goal of transforming both the printed and, more recently, "born-digital" taxonomic literature into semantically enabled, enhanced documents. This includes the creation of a test body of literature, an XML schema modeling its logic content (TaxonX), the development of a mark-up editor (GoldenGATE) allowing also the enhancement of documents with links to external resources via Life Science Identifiers (LSID), a repository for publications and issuance of bibliographic identifiers, a dedicated server to serve the marked up content (the Plazi Search and Retrieval Server, SRS) and semantic tools to mine information. Plazi's workflow is designed to respect copyright protection and achieves extraction by observing exceptions and limitations existent in international copyright law. The information found in Plazi's databases – taxonomic treatments as well as the metadata of the publications – are in the public domain and can therefore be used for further scientific research without any restriction, whether or not contained in copyrighted publications.