[Nhcoll-l] Recommendation on best practices for citations of taxon name authorities

[Jutta Buschbom]

Dear List,

The story of a name is part of the name itself.

Yesterday, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), the Consortium of 
European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) and SPNHC published a joint 
recommendation on best practices for citations of authorities associated 
with taxonomic names in RIO, see https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94338 .

The recommendation is based on previous work by CETAF's ePublishing 
working group. SPNHC's Publications and Best Practices committees 
together with the BHL contributed to the development of its current scope.

Explicitly stating the bibliographic citation implicitly given in the 
authorities of taxonomic names is fundamental and should be universally 
done when a scientific name is cited in a publication.

By following this best practice, taxonomic citations will become 
universally consistent, discoverable, and comparable across publications 
and platforms, and can be used to link the scientific name and its 
original description, both in a human and machine actionable way.

In this way, they form the foundation for building citation networks 
that enable accurate and unbiased data mining. Thereby scientific names 
and their authorities will be transformed into Findable, Accessible, 
Interoperable and Resuable (FAIR) data. These will allow immediate 
access and enhanced online discovery of taxonomic information for the 
entire scientific community and for society at large, to address 
biodiversity loss and its assessment in the face of global challenges.

Please redistribute the recommendation in your communities to promote 
the accessibility and visibility of fundamental biodiversity data and 
knowledge.

Jointly,

SPNHC, CETAF and BHL




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Statistical Genetics

Dr. Jutta Buschbom
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Strasse 35
22926 Ahrensburg
Germany

+49 (0)4102 459264
jutta.buschbom at statistical-genetics.de
https://statistical-genetics.com

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