Plazi

Plazi is an association supporting and promoting the development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature. To this end Plazi will:

* Maintain a digital taxonomic literature repository to enable archiving of taxonomic treatments.

* Enhance submitted taxonomic treatments by creating taxonx XML versions.

* Participate in the development of new models for publishing taxonomic treatments in order to maximize interoperability with other relevant cyberinfrastructure components (e.g., name servers, biodiversity resources, etc...)

* Advocate and educate about the vital importance of maintaining free and open access to scientific discourse and data.

Plazi News

Zookeys uses taxpub. June 30, 2010

A very productive collaboration with Zookeys/Pensoft led to the first usage of taxpub, our NLM publishing and archiving DTD extension that has been created with the support from NLM. This also includes a journal production workflow to handle XML as well as multiple ways to submit manuscripts from a text to a highly fine grained marked document. More

Taxonomy information exchange-paper shortlisted for the BioMed Central Open Data award. June 2010

Our paper describing Plazi's information exchange policy (Agosti & Egloff, 2009) has been shortlisted on the BMC Open Access prize, despite not fulfilling the original requirements of being a data centric paper explained in Cameron Neylon's, one of the judges, blog.