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Recent Plazi Publications
- Plazi: Providing access to taxonomic literature through semantic enhancements and exposure of treatments. An overview
- Plazi: Access to taxonomic literature –steps into the future of communicating and sharing taxonomic knowledge
- Access To Taxonomic Descriptions: Protologs Are Not Protected By Copyright.
New Ant Publications
- Technomyrmex (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) in the New World: synopsis and description of a new species
- Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
- Review of the ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia with notes on A. ceylonicus (Mayr)
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.
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Plazi News
Plazi at the e-biosphere Conference in London (June 2)
Donat Agosti will participate on panel 6 at the e-biosphere conference discussing cultural challenges related to data sharing, open access and intellectual property right in the biodiversity community.
Plazi Partners With Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Encyclopedia of Life and Plazi partner in a pioneering work to provide access to taxonomic descriptions extracted from the published record. This collaboration includes application of the Species Page Model (SPM) RDF Vocabulary developed by Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) to facilitate exchange of descriptive data. EOL has begun harvesting data provided by Plazi for inclusion in species pages on their website.
