Missouri Botanical Garden Open Conference Systems, TDWG 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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Bibliography of Life: Comprehensive services for biodiversity bibliographic references
David King, Guido Sautter, David Morse, Lyubomir Penev, Jordan Biserkov, Teodor Georgiev, Dave Roberts, Vince Smith

Building: Main Building 1st Floor
Room: Salone degli Oceani
Last modified: 2013-10-11

Abstract


The underlying principle of the Bibliography of Life is to provide taxonomists and others with a freely accessible bibliography covering the whole of life. Such a bibliography has been achieved for specific study areas within taxonomy, but not for “life” as a whole.
Now the ViBRANT project has produced the two components needed to realize the concept of a Bibliography of Life: RefBank and ReFinder. RefBank is a network of servers that store, identify duplicates, and parse the components of bibliographic references. ReFinder is designed to discover and download references from a wide range of open access online bibliographies, such as CrossRef, PubMed, Mendeley, Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), RefBank, BioStor, BioNames and others.