7. Text mining tools: Visualization of treatment content
Summary of content of 37 Zootaxa spider publications and 8
Biodiversity Data Journal. (Miller et al., 2015)
8. Pseudomyrmex ants and Vachellia ant-acacias
are a classic example of mutualism in biology.
allenii
melanoceras
ruddiae
chiapensis
collinsii
cookii
cornigera
globulifera
hindsii
janzenii
mayana
sphaerocephala
boopis
flavicornis
hesperius
ita
janzeni
kuenckeli
mixtecus
nigrocinctus
nigropilosus
opaciceps
particeps
peperi
reconditus
satanicus
simulans
spinicola
subtilissimus
veneficus
ferrugineus
gentlei
gracilis
Transbiotic link network
Associated species linked through
references in taxonomic treatments
Acacia-ant species: Pseudomyrmex gracili
Treatment: redescription
Associated ant-acacia: Acacia gentlei
Ants Plants
Photocredits: Alex Wild
Treatment
Treatments linked
through citations
Text mining tools: Visualization of treatment content
10. What is the issue? Build the necessary system
A system that allows to text and data mine the corpus of
taxonomic literature.
A system that links taxonomic names to its treatments.
14. Citations of the ALL-Book (Google Scholar)
Book 458
Chapter 1: Alonso, L.E., and D. Agosti. Biodiversity Studies, Monitoring, and Ants: An Overview 162
Chapter 2: Kaspari, M. A Primer in Ant Ecology (pdf) 85
Chapter 3: Andersen, A.N. A Global Ecology of Rainforest Ants: Functional Groups in Relation to
Environmental Stress and Disturbance (pdf) 172
Chapter 4: Schultz, T.R., and T.P. McGlynn. The Interaction of Ants with Other Organisms (pdf) 94
Chapter 5: Brown, W.L.Jr. Diversity of Ants (pdf) 220
Chapter 6: Alonso, L.E. Ants as Indicators of Diversity (pdf) 164
Chapter 7: Kaspari, M., J.D. Majer. Using Ants to Monitor Environmental Change (pdf) 116
Chapter 8: Ward, P.S. Broad-scale Patterns of Diversity in Leaf litter Ant Communities (pdf) 112
Chapter 9: Bestelmeyer, B.T., D. Agosti, L.E. Alonso, C.R.F. Brandão, W.L. Brown Jr., J.H.C. Delabie, and R.
Silvestre. Field Techniques for the Study of Ground-Dwelling Ants: An Overview, Description and Evaluation
(pdf) 388
Chapter 10: Delabie, J.H.C., B.L. Fisher, J.D. Majer, and I.W. Wright. Sampling Effort and Choise of Methods
(pdf) 117
Chapter 11: Lattke, J.E. Specimen Processing: Building and Curating an Ant Collection (pdf) 36
Chapter 12: Brandão, C.R.F. Major Regional and Type Collections of Ants (Formicidae) of the World and
Sources for the Identification of Ant Species (pdf) 41
Chapter 13: Longino, J.R. What to Do with the Data (pdf) 89
Chapter 14: Agosti, D., and L.E. Alonso. The ALL Protocol: A Standard Protocol for the Collection of Ground-
Dwelling Ants (pdf); versión en español (pdf) 179
Chapter 15: Fisher, B.L., A.K.F. Malsch, R. Gadagkar, J.H.C. Delabie, H.L. Vasconcelos, and J.D. Majer. Applying
the ALL Protocol: Selected Case Studies (pdf); extended version (pdf) 21
Total 2454
16. Open Access
Before antbase.org, Harvard‘s Museum of Comparative Zoology could claim to be the
only location with a complete set of ant systematics publications from 1758 - present.
Through antbase.org‘s
digital library, access
to this body of
literature is worldwide,
and it is actively used
(>10,000 visits in one
month only).
2004
17. .. Open Access to ca 80% of the papers citing the Antbook
(most of if not through the publishers’ Websites.
.. But it needs time to find the articles
Thanks to
Manual work
20. Create a citable open corpus of taxonomic publications
Content (Nov 2015)
Active:
4,500 Poctorupoidea and ant articles
DOI provider for Revue Suisse de Zoologie, Israel Journal of
Entomology, Polish Forestry Institute, Revue de Paléobiologie
Pipeline:
5,000 ant articles
16,000 drosophilid articles
All Pensoft journal articles, images, tables
Planned:
Back issues of RSZ
Backbone for Plazi and Pensoft cited articles
Participation:
Please join! Make all Swiss based treatments accessible?
25. Treatment: a well defined part of an article that
defines the particular usage of a scientific name
by an authority at a given time (a page(s) in a
publication).
Treatment
The special case taxonomic literature: The citated elements are
treatments, not article
Formica obsoleta Linnaeus, 1758: 580
29. Treatment Graph for the Malagasy Ants Aphaenogaster
Original description
Re-description cites
cites/
synonymizes
Re-description
Re-de.
Re-description
cites
32. Material
citationTreatmentArticleJournal
is part of is part of is part of
citescites cites
Taxonomic publication: deconstruct but keep parts linked
ISSN DOI httpURI httpURI
CIEPS / ISSN CrossRef / DataCite Client Client
Plazi PlaziBiodiversity Literature
Repository / Zenodo
CERN
42. Status quo
• 50,000+ treatments life, daily growth
• RDF in Betaversion
• GoldenGate Imagine (PDF and text mining tool) in betaversion
• Provider for data for NCBI, Wikidata, GBIF, EOL, antweb
• Biodiversity Literature Repository functional
46. Status quo
• 50,000+ treatments life, daily growth
• RDF in Betaversion
• GoldenGate Imagine (PDF and text mining tool) in betaversion
• Provider for data for NCBI, Wikidata, GBIF, EOL, antweb
• Biodiversity Literature Repository functional
48. What is planned? What can you do?
A system that allows to text and data mine the corpus of
taxonomic literature.
A system that links taxonomic names to its treatments.
50. BioDiP
Program: SUK-Programm 2013-2016 P-2 «Wissenschaftliche Information:
Zugang, Verarbeitung und Speicherung»
Partners: HES-SO, HEG Geneva (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics), Plazi, open
at various levels – from adding content to BLR to data mining and building
applications
Submission: February 2016
Duration: 2-3 years
What is planned? What can you do?