Introduction

The diagram above illustrates the use of GNA components to build an integrative data delivery system. European museums and institutional members of the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy collective publish nearly 100 scholarly publications. A strategy focused on ensuring the publication of titles and abstracts in a common (RSS) format provides the basis to integrate this publication stream with relevant taxonomic resources inventoried in the GBIF taxonomic data index. In the illustration the intent is to tie the European publications to a pan-European taxonomic checklist.

This has the dual benefits of

• informing taxonomic experts who contribute to the expert taxonomic systems with updated information on relevant publications that may advance their work.
• extending the products of expert taxonomy to provide an organisational framework for publications that better serves biology by breaking the traditional organisational method (by journal) and replacing it with a method that conforms to our understanding of species.

GNA components that contribute to these outcomes:

• GNA Data Standard
• Taxonomic Name Recognition
• Taxonomic Name Parsing
• Name Matching
• Checklist Bank Indexing
• General Mapping Process

See ECAT presentation to PESI Publishers Meeting (July 2009) on Google Docs