The Biodiversity Heritage Library Portal: The Rectification of Names
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Biodiversity Heritage Library Meeting, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, February 7, 2007
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library Portal: The Rectification of Names
- 1. Biodiversity Heritage Library Portal The Rectification of Names
- 2. Names Rectification of Names (Cheng Ming) What is necessary is to rectify names If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. The Analects of Confucius Book 13, verse 3 (Legge translation, 1980)
- 3. Our first thought: BiodiversityHeritageLibrary.org
- 4. 油
- 5. Since we would be covering more than botany, the obvious choice was: ZoBo.org Maria Sibylla Merian Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium , [1705]
- 6. BoZo.org Or we could give plants precedence:
- 7. Maybe TWO portals were needed: Botanicus.org Adam Lonicer Kreuterbuch: k端nstliche Conterfeytunge der B辰ume, Stauden, Hecken , 1582
- 8. Faunicus.org Reginald Pocock Biologia Centrali-Americana Chilopoda and Diplopoda , 1910
- 9. The Wine Advisory Board The California Way 1950 Omnivoricus.org
- 10. NotDeadThings.org Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon Histoire naturelle : g辿n辿rale et particuli竪re (Oiseaux) , 1799-1808
- 11. Extinctionary.org Othniel Charles Marsh The dinosaurs of North America , 1896
- 12. LibraryofLife.org WikiBioLitty.org Maybe something to tie into the Encyclopedia of Life: Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum . . . , 1719
- 13. Or inspired by the All Species Foundation or Species 2000: Omnibiosis.org Vitalis.org Allogy.org Friedrich Heinrich von Kittlitz Beschreibung mehrerer neuer oder wenig gekannter Arten des Geschlechtes Acanthurus, im stillen Ocean 1834
- 14. BioSpeciesBrary.org FloraunaBrary.org BioBrary.org LifeBrary.org BioLitBrary.org Maybe we need to include the L word in some way: Gaspar Schott Mechanica hydraulico-pneumatica , 1657
- 15. QHQKQL.org Z672.org Z265.org UDC574.org Or maybe something more metadata-y Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon Histoire naturelle : g辿n辿rale et particuli竪re (Oiseaux) , 1799-1808 Histoire naturelle g辿n辿rale et particuli竪revol. 14. (1766)
- 16. Or more of a 18 th century library LibraryofNaturalCuriosities.org Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum . . . , 1719
- 17. But in German WunderkammerBibliothekKatalogDerLebendenSachen.org Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum . . . , 1719
- 18. So wed better stick with English: CardCatalogofLife.org Massachusetts. Zoological and Botanical Survey Reports on the fishes, reptiles and birds of Massachusetts , 1839
- 19. and make allowances: CardCatalog(ue)ofLife.org Mordecai Cubitt Cooke Our reptiles and batrachians; indigenous to Great Britain , 1893
- 20. Or perhaps just stay enigmatic 42.museum Anton鱈n Fri Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine 1893-
- 21. Suggestions????
- 22. Thanks To Chris Freeland Doug Holland Suzanne Pilsk Neil Thomson A Fathead (genus Psychrolutes )
Editor's Notes
- In discussing the BHL portal, weve had trouble with names what exactly are we talking about? Is that the portal? The metadata repository? The Website?