something about links

@rdmpage

http://iphylo.blogspot.com

@mycokeys

10.3897/mycokeys.5.4302

Where are:

• The users?

• The questions?

• The science?

Phylogeography

Taxonomy

Our questions span multiple databases

(“paths” in network)

Specimens and diseases

PMID:948206

http://biostor.org/reference/102054

http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/215921922/

BHL and GBIF as biomedical databases

http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/bhl-and-gbif-as-biomedical-databases.html

Metrics

In an attempt to live up to that increasing demand for documentation, the leadership of the Natural History Museum of Denmark has issued an order to its curatorial staff - The staff members are requested to document which publications from 2011, written entirely by external scientists, that in one way or another are based on material in the collections of the Museum.

http://markmail.org/message/opv2we7fkmro2nen@TAXACOM

https://twitter.com/#!/search/10.1371%252Fjournal.pone.0036881

https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176

https://twitter.com/edwbaker/status/205595933159858176

http://www.museum-analytics.org/

Impact of collection

Cited, linkable specimens

NMNH Vertebrate Zoology Herpetology Collections 11194

CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog

MCZ Herpetology Collection

Herpetology Collection (University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center)

9619

6720

5818

http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/gbif-specimens-in-biostor-who-are-top.html

The story of the web(it’s all about links)

http://… http://…

http://… http://…

link

,

http://… http://…

http://…

http://… http://…

http://…

is ais a author ofauthor of

personperson

FredFred

bookbook

The Semantic web:

“The future of the web…and always will be” – Peter Norvig (Google)

http://… http://…

http://…

is ais a author ofauthor of

personperson

FredFred

bookbook

http://… http://…

http://…

Without links we will #fail to deliver the cool stuff

http://… http://…

link

,

Links = pairs of identifiers

Problem: nobody sees value in the links

@mycokeys

10.3897/mycokeys.5.4302

PublishersPublishers

GenomicsGenomics

MuseumsMuseums

Taxon

databasesTaxon

databases

Question 1:

When will we value links enough to create and maintain them?

#@$! GBIF keeps changing URLs!

http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/dear-gbif-please-stop-changing.html

Citation network = valuable links

Question 2:

How do we link in the absence of identifiers?

When shall we link?http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/when-shall-we-link.html

When shall we link?

• Just in case (hard coded)– Identifiers– e.g., DOIs

• Just in time (link when needed)– Instructions to make link– OpenURL

doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-187

?journal=BMC Bioinformatics&volume=12&spage=187

Just in case

Just in time

The challenge:

How do we make persistent links in the absence of persistent

identifiers?