EDIT: Webbased taxonomy

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EDIT Web-based taxonomy and ZooBank
Andrew Polaszek
Executive Secretary, ICZN, c/o Natural History
Museum, London UK iczn_at_nhm.ac.uk
www.iczn.org www.zoobank.org
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ZooBank
An open-access register for all scientific names
of animals
First proposed in Nature 437 477 (22 September
2005)
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ZooBank

• Online registration form

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ZooBank

• Online registration form
• Pre- and post-publication registration

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ZooBank

• Online registration form
• Pre- and post-publication registration
• Primary and third-party registration

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ZooBank

• Online registration form
• Pre- and post-publication registration
• Primary and third-party registration
• LSID/DOI system

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ZooBank

• Online registration form
• Pre- and post-publication registration
• Primary and third-party registration
• LSID/DOI system
• Parallels with GenBank Acc. No. system

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ZooBank

• Online registration form
• Pre- and post-publication registration
• Primary and third-party registration
• LSID/DOI system
• Parallels with GenBank Acc. No. system
• Pre-publication holding period names hidden

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ZooBank

• Online registration form
• Pre- and post-publication registration
• Primary and third-party registration
• LSID/DOI system
• Parallels with GenBank Acc. No. system
• Pre-publication holding period names hidden
• Checking for Code-compliance

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ZooBank

• Online registration form
• Pre- and post-publication registration
• Primary and third-party registration
• LSID/DOI system
• Parallels with GenBank Acc. No. system
• Pre-publication holding period names hidden
• Checking for Code-compliance
• Registration free

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ZooBank

• Online registration form
• Pre- and post-publication registration
• Primary and third-party registration
• LSID/DOI system
• Parallels with GenBank Acc. No. system
• Pre-publication holding period names hidden
• Checking for Code-compliance
• Registration free
• Zoological Record kick-starts ZooBank with IoN

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ZooBank
An open-access register for all scientific names
of animals
Online with 1.6 million animal names August
2006 using Zoo. Record - ION
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nomenclature of Giardia lamblia complex
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7 variants lablia lambia lambila lambla lamblia l
ambllia lamlia
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However a recent positive example
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ICZN / Zoological Record partnership Potential
for delivering the complete index to animal names
by combining indexing, retrospective
(post-publication) registration pre-publication
registration
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Zoological Record offices, York, UK
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Concerns regarding data ownership, data use,
but especially re-use of data
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November December 2006 4-way discussions
between ICZN, Thomson (Zoo. Record) GBIF TDWG
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November December 2006 4-way discussions
between ICZN, Thomson (Zoo. Record) GBIF
TDWG Resulting in
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• January 2007
• ZooBank Guiding Principles Policies
• ICZN to have complete autonomous control of
  verified
• records in ZooBank
• Authority for development and implementation of
  ZooBank
• rests with ICZN Commissioners
• Data content associated with verified records
  freely
• available for partial or complete downloads
• Data content to conform to prevailing data
  structure and
• accessibility standards (TDWG)

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http//www2.bishopmuseum.org/iczn/docs/ZooBank-GPP
.pdf
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ZooBank the next steps Zoo. Record TITAN
70K additional genera AGI All Genera
Index Prototype groups bees (birds, fish?)
ZooBank LSIDs ICZN / TDWG / GBIF collaboration
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ZooBank the next steps Continuing role of
Zoo. Record (ION, TITAN) with other data
providers Authoritative taxonomic
databases (Data validation process via learned
societies, EDIT focal points network, and
others) ECAT, FaEu, Catalogue of Life
(Sp2000/ITIS), Namebank (name dump)
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WP3.2a
Biodiversity Information Backbone
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Draft structure of cross-reference layers to
establish the relevant 'Taxonomic Intelligence'
Subjective layer (classifications)
TaxonConcept
Objective layer (nomenclators)
TaxonName
Name dump (namebank)
NameString / NameTag
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Draft structure of cross-reference layers to
establish the relevant 'Taxonomic Intelligence'
Subjective layer (classifications)
TaxonConcept
Objective layer (nomenclators)
TaxonName
Name dump (namebank)
NameString / NameTag
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Draft structure of cross-reference layers to
establish the relevant 'Taxonomic Intelligence'
Subjective layer (classifications)
TaxonConcept
Objective layer (nomenclators) ZooBank, MycoBank,
?IPNI
TaxonName
Name dump (namebank)
NameString / NameTag
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EDIT WP3.2a Biodiversity Information
Backbone Varying species concepts exist (indeed)
but However 1 string is set-in-stone Origin
al Genus species combination, author(s) date
original reference
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Automated conflict detection repair (cant
be done?)
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EDIT WP3.2b European Taxonomic Information
Services - database sustainability
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ZooBank the next steps Prototype groups
bees ZooBank case study (ICZN-GBIF
collaboration) with c18,000 species
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ADDITIONAL THANKS TO

• EDIT project for APs participation today
• Natural History Museum (London)
• Thomson / Zoo. Record
• GBIF TDWG
• Taylor Francis Ltd
• The Gatsby Charitable Foundation
• The Commissioners Trustees of ICZN/ITZN