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PLAZI Treatment Repository
Willi Egloff & Donat AgostiRDA 4th Plenary
CODATA Legal Interoperability IGAmsterdam, September 22, 2014
Institutionalize access to treatments
publications or (more frequently) sections of publications documenting the features or distribution of a related group of organisms (called a “taxon”, plural “taxa”) in ways adhering to highly formalized conventions. Some of these are over a century old. [Catapano, 2011]
Each taxonomic name usage has a treatment
>> 50 M treatments published: the knowledge of the world’s species
Plazi Treatment Repository
Plazi related publications
Treatment?
structureedTreatment (1)
Journal run
Atrticle
Treatment
vendor
scientist
Scientist / crowd
Vendor - level
General markup
structured treatment (2) and data
markup programs
services
Domain - level
Domain specific markup
Publication
lega
cypr
ospe
ctive
Taxpub (1) (zookeys)
Taxpub (2) BDJ
scripting scientist
scientist
crowd
Work Data Work OpenAccess
1. Publication conversion workflow
Extraction of treatments
•Art. 19 CPA-CH (internal use)• § 50 II CPA-DK, art. 42 h CPA-S (extended collective
license)?• „fair use“?• future copyright and database right exceptions for
research purposes?
1. Publication conversion workflow
Get name
«please give me the treatment of taxon X»
Treatment of taxon X?
Name present
TreatCit present?
no yesGet treatment
Treatment of taxon X
yes
TreatCit Treatment Citation (=BibRef+page#)BibRef Bibliographic ReferenceAuthorY Author and year of publication of a taxon
yes
PDF present?
Get treatCit
yes
Extract treatmentExtract treat?
yes
Enter name?
Good Bye
no
no
BibRef present?
AuthorY present?
PDF present?
Get PDF
Create TreatCit?
TreatCit
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Find it externallyno
Find it externallyno
Add PDF to BLR no
Good Bye
noyes
Right treatment?
yes
no
no
Good Bye
no
GNUB
REFBANK SRS
BLR (open /closed)
DMA
BLR Biodiversity Literature RepositoryDMA Document Main ArchiveGNUB Global Name Usage BankRefBank Bibliographic Reference DatabaseSRS Treatment Server
1. Publication conversion workflow
Biodiversity Literature Repository•Open sector:• not copyrightable text and data• public domain documents• works, whose protection period is expired• works with CC0-waver or CC-BY-license
• Closed sector:• sensitive data• copyright protected works (for internal use only)
1. Publication conversion workflow
2 Barriers
Reasons for not opening upFinancial interests of publishersFinancial interests of scientific societiesConcerns for third world scientists about costs of publishingProtecting competitive advantageSome of the data has been acquired under certain restrictive conditionsCopyright has been transferred to a publisherCopyright owner unknownRisk adversity
MisconceptionsCopyright as a guarantee of citationCopyright as a sign of the quality of workI collected the data, therefore they are mine
TraditionI never thought about it
Bouchout Declaration
Blue List
Study of extensive collective licences for Switzerland
3. Ongoing developments
Signatories of the Bouchout Declaration
Pro-iBiosphere project team members
Collecting societies in Switzerland
4. Stakeholder Involvement
Under discussion in the followup process of the Bouchout Declaration
5 Progress in implementing legal interoperability
6 . The level of information about legal issues
• Egloff W, Patterson D, Agosti D, Hagedorn G 2014. Open exchange of scientific knowledge and European copyright: The case of biodiversity information. ZooKeys 414, 109-135. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.414.7717• Egloff W, 2014. Access to scientific and technical information - between social
needs and private interests. (English translation of: Egloff W, 2014. Der Zugang zu Fachinformationen – zwischen gesellschaftlicher Notwendigkeit und privatem Verwertungsinteresse In: Hansjürgen Garstka, Wolfgang Coy (Hg.), Wovon - für wen - wozu. Systemdenken wider die Diktatur der Daten, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, S. 349-373, ISBN 978-3-86004-298-4. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10378• Patterson DJ, Egloff W, Agosti D, Eades D, Franz N, Hagedorn G, Rees J, Remsen DP
2014. Scientific names of organisms: attribution, rights, and licensing . BMC Research Notes 2014, 7:79 doi:10.1186/1756-0500-7-79,• Agosti, D., W. Egloff. 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the
Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53, doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-53