BHL and Wikipedia

BHL and Wikipedia

Goals of interlinking

• Drive traffic to BHL - measurable action based on web site analytics
• Improving content in Wikipedia
• Make Wikipedia users aware of BHL as a repository

Wiki Tool to find all links across Wikipedia Language sites linking back to BHL

• All Languages
• English Wikipedia only
• See Discussion Tab for code from Phil Cryer for pasing data

Kinds of links/content to promote

• Original descriptions of organisms
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion (look at "Linnaeus, 1758" at bottom of taxonomy box on right
  • Preference is to link to the actual page
• External links to "names bibliography" for an organism
  • http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/name/Ancistrocladus_letestui
    
    
• External links in Wikipedia entries for authors, titles, concepts
• Linking within context of the entry
• References supporting claims made in an entry
  • Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids#cite_ref-14
• Wikimedia Commons
  • Example:
  • Chris' view: this activity is great, but doesn't directly drive traffic to BHL

New kinds of links/content

• Original articles

Standard linking templates

• For an author
  • * View works by [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/creatorID AuthorName] online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
• For a title
  • * View [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/title/titleID Title+Name] online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
• For an organism
  • * View occurrences of "[http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/name/Genus+species Genus+species]" in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
    - chrisfreeland Feb 28, 2012what does anyone think of these standard forms?
• Reference: journal
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• Reference: book
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Wikipedia editing guidelines

Whats more effective – links within articles or external links? Community best practice is that links within articles should be to other Wikipedia pages not to external links.

How to decide what to edit in Wikipedia – could look at Top 5000 search links for Wikipedia (see Chris’s blog post) to see what species, authors, concepts we should focus on

Taxobox – where you can edit the taxonomic info that displays in the box to the right of the page
[[ = links to wikipedia page“xx”= italics[xx]=external linkReferences – footnote, references within the pageExternal Links – more info on this topicFor external links to book or journal use the forms below or choose the Cite button in the editing screen# ^ cite journal|last=Olmsted|first=Denison|title=Observations on the Meteors of November 13th, 1833|journal=The American journal of science and arts|year=1833|volume=25|pages=363-411|url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30964366|accessdate=3 April 2012

1. ^ Cite book|last=Linnaeus |first=Carolus |authorlink=Carl Linnaeus |title=Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. |publisher=Holmiae (Laurentii Salvii) |year=1758 |page=41 |url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726936 |accessdate=8 September 2008 |language=Latin |volume=1 |edition=10th

Keep in mind

• In early stages of editing its better to add content than to edit existing content (otherwise the Wikipedia reviewers might think its suspicious)
• For species names let’s just link from the accepted binomial and not link from all of the synonyms

Questions

When citing a book and entering the author’s name do we use the form of name from BHL, Tropicos or Wikipedia?e.g.

• Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778.(BHL)
• Linnaeus, Carl von (tropicos)
• Carl Linnaeus (Wikipedia)

Same with title - use title from book or common title?

• Use common titles e.g. Species Plantarum
• authoritative title e.g. Caroli Linnaei ... Species plantarum :exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas...

Sample links to BHL content created by Susan Fraser, Kevin Nolan, Connie Rinaldo and others for IMLS project

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_pudica
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Gustav_Reichenbach
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=11141106
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-and-yellow_Macaw
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DruryV1P004AA.jpg
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DruryIlusi.jpeg
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Karl_Georg_Fedde
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_White
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systema_Naturae
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Theodora_Parsons
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Grisebach
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_von_Wüllerstorf-Urbair
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpon
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transactions_of_the_Linnean_Society_of_London,_Volume_10_-_p._15.jpg
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Vries

Details of the Above:

Louis Agassiz - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz
1. Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1857-1862)
Liberty Hyde Bailey - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Hyde_Bailey
2. Talks Afield About Plants and the Science of Plants (1885)
3. The Forcing-Book (1897)
4. Animal biology; Human biology. Parts II & III of First course in biology with W.M. Coleman (1910)
Jacob Bigelow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bigelow
5. An introduction to physiological & systematical botany (1814)
6. Florula bostoniensi (1814, 1st Edition)
7. American medical botany (1817-20) (Vol. 1-3)
8. Florula bostoniensi (1824, 2nd Edition)
Nathaniel Britton - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Lord_Britton
9. A preliminary catalogue of the flora of New Jersey (1881) Et al.
10. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic ocean westward to the 102d meridian 3 volumes. (1896-98) With Addison Brown.
11. Contributions to the botany of the Yukon Territory (1901) Et al.
12. Manual of the flora of the northern states and Canada (1901)
13. The sedges of Jamaica (1907)
14. Studies in West Indian plants (1908-26)
15. Rhipsalis in the West Indies (1909)
16. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions (Vol. 1-3, 1913) With Addison Brown.
17. The vegetation of Mona Island (1915)
18. Flora of Bermuda (1918)
19. The flora of the American Virgin Islands (1918)
20. Descriptions of Cuban plants new to science (1920)
21. The Bahama flora (1920) With Charles Frederick Millspaugh.
22. Neoabbottia, a new cactus genus from Hispaniola (1921)
Alice Eastwood - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eastwood
23. Bergen's botany (1901) With Joseph Young Bergen.
24. A flora of the South Fork of Kings River (1902)
25. Leaflets of western botany Vol. 1-10 with index (1932-1966) With J.T. Howell.
26. Zoe: a biological journal Vol. 3-4. (1892) With K.L. Brandegee and T.S. Brandegee
Asa Gray - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Gray
27. Letters of Asa Gray. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894.Gray, Jane Loring, ed.
28. A flora of North America, Wiley & Putnam, 1838-1843. Two volumes. With John Torrey
29. Gray's Botanical text-book, American Book Company, 1879. Two volumes.
30. Gray's school and field book of botany, American Book Company, 1887
31. Introduction to structural and systematic botany and vegetable physiology, Phinney & Co., 1862.
32. A manual of the botany of the northern United States, 1848. With William Starling Sullivant.
33. A natural system of botany, 1837.
34. Plantae Wrightianae e Cuba orientali/A. Grisebach, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1860-1862. With A. Grisebach and Charles Wright
35. Synoptical flora of North America : the Gamopetalae, a second edition of vol. I, pt. II, and vol. II, pt. I / collected by Asa Gray, Smithsonian Institution, 1888.
36. Synoptical flora of North America, American Book Company, 1878-1895/97.

Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_Prentiss_Hedrick
37. Grapes of New York (1908)
38. Plums of New York (1911)
39. Cherries of New York (1915)
40. Peaches of New York (1917)
41. Manual of American Grape Growing (1919)
42. The Pears of New York (1921)
43. Systematic Pomology (1925)
44. Small Fruit of New York (1925)

Antione Laurent Jussieu - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Laurent_de_Jussieu
45. Antonii Laurentii de Jussieu Genera plantarum :secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in Horto regio parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV
46. Opuscules de botanique

John Lindley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lindley
47. Nixus Plantarum (1833)
48. Flora Medica (1838)
49. The Vegetable Kingdom (1846)
50. Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards's botanical register (1839)
51. Collectanea botanica (1821-1826) With Richard and Arthur Taylor.
52. Edwards' botanical register (1829-1847) With James Ridgway. Vol. 15-33.
53. Einleitung in das natürliche System der Botanik (1833)
54. The genera and species of orchidaceous plants /by John Lindley. (1830-1840)
55. Medical and oeconomical botany /by John Lindley (1849)
56. Monographie du genre rosier, traduit de l'anglais de J. Lindley ...par M. de Pronville (1824) With Auguste de Pronville.
57. Paxton's flower garden /by Professor Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton (1853) Et al. Three volumes.
58. Sertum orchidaceum:a wreath of the most beautiful orchidaceous flowers /selected by John Lindley. (1838)

Ferdinand von Mueller - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_von_Mueller
59. Das grosse illustrirte Kräuter-Buch (1860)
60. Introduction to botanic teachings at the schools of Victoria (1877)
61. The organic constituents of plants and vegetable substances and their chemical analysis(1878)
62. Manuel de l'acclimateur (1887)

J.S. Newberry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strong_Newberry
63. The flora of the Amboy Clays. (Abstract) (1886)
64. Paleozoic Fishes of North America (1889)

Constantine S. Rafinesque - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Samuel_Rafinesque
65. Indice d'ittiologia siciliana ossia catalogo metodico dei nomi latini, italiani, e siciliani, e siciliani dei pesci, che si rinvengono in Sicilia disposti secondo un metodo naturale eseguito da un appendice che contiene la descrizione di alcuni nuovi pesci siciliani. Ill Opuscolo del signore C.S. Rafinesque Schmaltz, Messina, 1810
66. Précis des Découvertes et Travaux Somiologiques, Palermo 1814
67. Ichthyologia Ohiensis, Lexington 1820
68. Medical Flora, a Manual of the Medical Botany of the United States of North America (two volumes), Philadelphia 1828, 1830
69. Flora Telluriana (four parts), Philadelphia 1836. With John Hendley Barnhart.
70. New Flora and Botany of North America (four parts)
71. Sylva Telluriana
72. Autikon Botanikon
73. The complete writings of Constantine Smaltz Rafinesque on recent & fossil conchology. Edited by Wm. G. Binney and George W. Tryon Jr.

John Torrey - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Torrey
74. Botanic contributions relating to the flora of western North America [by Gray, Engelmann, Torrey [and] Frémont] (1843-53)
75. A compendium of the flora of the northern and middle states, containing generic and specific descriptions of all the plants, exclusive of the cryptogamia, hitherto found in the United States, north of the Potomac (1826)
76. A flora of North America :containing abridged descriptions of all the known indigenous and naturalized plants growing north of Mexico, arranged according to the natural system /by John Torrey and Asa Gray (1838-1843) Two volumes.
77. An introduction to the natural system of botany (1831) With John Lindley.
78. On the Darlingtonia californica, a new pitcher-plant from northern California /by John Torrey (1853)
79. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey :made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior /by William - H. Emory, major First Cavalry, and United States commissioner (1857-1859) Torrey et al. Part 1
80. H. Emory, major First Cavalry, and United States commissioner (1857-1859) Torrey et al. Part 2

Alfred Russel Wallace - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace
81. On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution as illustrated by the Papilionidae of the Malayan region
82. Palm trees of the Amazon and their uses

Hugo de Vries - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Vries
83. The Mutation Theory German edition Bd. 1-2 (1901-03),
84. The Mutation Theory English edition Volume 2 (1909-10)
85. Species and Varieties: Their Origin by Mutation (1905)

Other

• Rod Page's Wikipedia Experiments
• Women's History Month
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1. ^ cite journal|last=Olmsted|first=Denison|title=Observations on the Meteors of November 13th, 1833|journal=The American journal of science and arts|year=1833|volume=25|pages=363-411|url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30964366|accessdate=3 April 2012
2. ^ Cite book|last=Linnaeus |first=Carolus |authorlink=Carl Linnaeus |title=Systema naturae per regna tria naturae :secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. |publisher=Holmiae (Laurentii Salvii) |year=1758 |page=41 |url=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726936 |accessdate=8 September 2008 |language=Latin |volume=1 |edition=10th