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Meeting of Literature Interest Group 14-16 November 2007

Where: In St Louis, Missouri and around the world via video/phone/desktop conference

Agenda

Instructions for setting up and testing video conference facilities (thanks Arturo)

Major agenda items

Draft standard for high level literature content markup schema

Draft standard for Vocabulary & Content

Draft white paper (outline at least) for handling abbreviated and subreference citations

Background documents

NEW REPLACEMENT Citation Vocabulary Draft as updated by group during afternoon session, 15 Nov 2007 -- AnnaWeitzman - 16 Nov 2007

NEW REPLACEMENT Draft Literatue Content Structure with some Phrase suggestions as agreed to by group during morning session, 15 Nov 2007-- AnnaWeitzman - 16 Nov 2007

NEW Revised preliminary high-level mapping of available schemas, with recommended high-level structure & some phrase-level elements, as created during the morning session on 15 Nov 2007; this will be turned into another form overnight and reposted -- Anna Weitzman - 15 Nov 2007

NEW Citation Vocabulary Draft as created by group during afternoon session, 14 Nov 2007 -- Anna Weitzman - 15 Nov 2007

High level comparison between TaxonX and taXMLit schemas (by Anna Weitzman)

Partial first draft of Vocabulary: About TDWG Ontology & Citation Vocabulary & other Vocabularies to be used to create Publication Content Vocabulary (by Roger Hyam)

Comments on Vocabulary draft (discussion started by Richard Pyle and continued by Anna Weitzman)

Preliminary document on use cases (based on INOTAXA use cases as presented in Bratislava-Use cases from taxonomists, conservationists, and others) and requirements for content schema for Literature (by Anna Weitzman & Chris Lyal)

Preliminary high-level mapping of available schemas (or data dictionaries) by Anna Weitzman. Source documents used available below.

First draft outline for white paper on best practices for citations and marking them (by David Remsen, coming soon)

Literature at TDWG 2007 in Bratislava, Slovakia, September

Minutes from meeting of Literature Interest Group

Talks from Session on Literature:

Session 8: Models for Integrating TDWG: Literature Model

Introduction (Anna Weitzman)

Linking Bibliographic Data to Library Content (Julius Welby)

Use cases from taxonomists, conservationists, and others (Cynthia Sims Parr & Chris Lyal)

Progress in making literature easily accessible: schemas and marking up (Terry Catapano & Anna Weitzman)

Literature & interoperability: a working example using Ants (Donat Agosti, Terry Catapano& Guido Sautter)

(Taxonomic Literature: What Next? (Anna Weitzman & Chris Lyal)

Comparisons of existing solutions

• Some additional literature standards efforts
  • http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bib/openbib.html
  • http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/HCLSIG_BibliographicInformation

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Literature Web Utilities

• Agenda_TDWG_Lit_Group_6_Nov_07.doc: Agenda for Lit Group meeting 14-16 Nov 2007

• tdwg_video.doc: Description and instructions for video connections to meeting by Arturo Arino

• TDWG_Literature_meeting__Bratislava.doc: Minutes from Literature Group in Bratislava, Sept 2007

• comparisonTaxonXtaXMLit22Oct07.pdf: Diagram comparing TaxonX? and taXMLit at a high level

• Agosti_Tdwg_literature_interoperability.ppt: Agosti & Catapano 2007

• Catapano_Weitzman_Markup_Final.pdf: Catapano & Weitzman 2007

• Parr_Lyal_use_case_presentation_compressed.pdf: Parr & Lyal 2007

• Weitzman_Lyal_Models_for_Integrating_TDWG_Summary.pdf: Weitzman & Lyal 2007

• Weitzman_Models_for_Integrating_TDWG_Literature.pdf: Weitzman 2007

• Welby_TDWG_2007_presentation.pdf: Welby 2007

• Literature_Content_Standard_Criteria.xls: Literature_Content_Standard_Criteria.xls

• Lit_Schema_Comparison.xls: Lit_Schema_Comparison.xls

• taXMLit_v3-016e.xsd: taXMLit current version November 2007

• African_Floras_data_dictionary.doc: Kew's Data Dictionary for African Floras, Nov 2007

• fl-australia.xsd: Australian Floras Schema, downloaded Nov 2007

• TaxonomicPublication.xsd: NZ Floras schema, received Oct 2004

• Fl_Bras_Data_Dict.doc: Flora Brasiliensis Data Dictionary from Report July 2006

• taxonx1.xsd: TaxonX? schema, downloaded Sept 2007

• CitationVocabularyDraft_14Nov07.doc: Citation Vocabulary Draft created during afternoon session, 14 Nov 2007

• Draft_Content_Structure_Tax_Lit.xls: Draft Literatue Content Structure and with some Phrase suggestions 15 Nov 2007

• CitationVocabularyDraft_15Nov07_a.doc: Citation Vocabulary drafted by group updated late 15 Nov 2007

• taXMLit_v3-017a-15Jan08.xsd: Current version of taXMLit schema, 15 January 2008