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Managing Specialist Bibliographies

BHL has been given a bibliography or bibliographies from specialist groups (Decapoda, Phthiraptera) that could be used to guide selection & prioritization for digitization. These bibliographies are generally in EndNote or a similar reference management system like Zotero or RefWorks.

Notes from discussion with Chris, Trish, and Bianca about how to handle bibliographies (esp original descriptions) in Citebank 6/15/12
BHL citations and protologs.docx
Bibliographies Received:

• American Malacological Society - "2,400 Years of Malacology"
  • http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.php
• Bees
  • BEES_ITIS_06-Jun-2008.zip
• Decapoda
  • Decapoda-EndNote.zip
  • Previous work from Diane at MBLWHOI with this bibliography
• Formis
  • formis08_endnote10-11.zip
• Fungus
  • qryBHL-References.zip
• Liverworts
  • Liverwort_Bibliography_for_BHL.xls - updated 4/2/2009
• Mammals of the World
  • msw3-all.zip
• Passiflora species protologues from Tropicos
  • Passiflora Species and Protologues.csv
• Phthiraptera bibliography:
  • Original at RefWorks, as authored by specialist:
    • http://www.refworks.com/refshare/?site=01002978336000000/459970/218471129329111000

Issues to Discuss

Acquisition

• How are these bibliographies contributed to BHL?
  • Emailed to someone at BHL for us to upload?
  • Uploaded to a central repository by the specialist?
• What formats will we accept?
  • BibTex, RIS, EndNote?

Management

• What existing systems are available for use?
  • EndNote
    • powerful, but intended for a single user and has no native web visibility
  • RefWorks
    • Intended for collaborative use & web visibility, but fewer features
    • http://www.refworks.com/refshare/?site=01002978336000000/459970/218471129329111000
  • Connotea
    • service issues reported
    • example of Phthiraptera bibliography exported from EndNote and uploaded into Connotea: http://www.connotea.org/group/Phythiraptera
  • CiteULike
    • example of Phthiraptera bibliography: http://www.citeulike.org/group/7846/library
  • Zotero
    • no collaboration in current release, new version promises more
• Can a specialist group update their bibliography? Add new items? Change them later?

Bibliography as selection for scanning

• Scholarship needed for abbreviations?
• Scholarship needed for title changes/splits?
• How can we search ACROSS multiple bibliographies to find titles of interest to multiple groups?
  • If two groups have Journal X in their bibliography, then it should be prioritized over Journal Y, which is only in one.
• What is a "priority"? For example, do we use a fixed number (e.g. >20 citations per title) or a fixed percentage (e.g. >20% of citations) to identify priority literature? Where do we draw the line?

Kinds of Bibliographies**

• Reference lists
  • List of publications of use to a scholar studying all aspects of the group in question
    • Standard "works cited"
  • One entry per title (hopefully)
• Taxonomic
  • Specific publications in which taxonomic acts occur
  • Different from a "standard" bibliography in that a given title may be referenced multiple times
    • there may be 4 new species described in one article of Journal X, and Journal X may contain 5 other articles with taxonomic acts, so Journal X would show up 6 times if the bibliography is grouped by taxon.
  • MOBOT's work for Botanicus falls in this category. We found all of the protologue citations for all plants in Tropicos and grouped by Title to get a count of protologues per title.