Talk given at Flora Malesiana 10 in Edinburgh 13 July 2016

1. In praise of grumpy old men
@rdmpage
http://iphylo.blogspot.com
Chair @GBIF Science Committee
#fm10ed

2. Leon Croizat Tracks
=Panbiogeography
Gary Nelson & Norm Platnick
Phylogeny
+ geography
= cladistic biogeography

3. Ted Nelson Hyperlinks and
hypermedia
Two-way links and
“transclusion”
= Xanadu
Tim Berners-Lee
HTTP, URL, HTML
One-way links
= world wide web

4. Web page Other web page
Web linking, one way, document-level, “target”
doesn’t know that it is linked to (“cited”),
link can break (404)

5. text
Work Source
text
Xanadu linking, two way, fragment-level,
“source” knows it is linked to, source content is
embedded, links don’t break

6. Xanadu

7. Wait, WTF has this to do
with floras?!

8. What is a flora?
• Draw polygon (shape) on map
• Get list of all species within that polygon
• Get original descriptions/revisions for those
species
• Add locally relevant information
• Mash together (“mashup”), and we’re done!

9. iSpecies.org
for Horsfieldia

10. A New Account of the Genus
Horsfieldia (Myristicaceae), Pt 2
W J J O De Wilde
The Gardens' bulletin, Singapore 38(1): 55-144 (1985)
http://biostor.org/reference/175018
Horsfieldia lancifolia

11. Flora Malesiana. Series I - Seed Plants,
Volume 14. Myristicaceae

12. Description
Description
Flora Article

13. Embedding text and images

14. Embedding data

15. van Balgooy 3973
van Balgooy 3973

16. Description
Article Specimen
{
"key": 1139234988,
"scientificName": "Horsfieldia
lancifolia W.J.J.O. de Wilde",
"kingdom": "Plantae",
"phylum": "Tracheophyta",
"order": "Magnoliales",
"family": "Myristicaceae",
"genus": "Horsfieldia",
"species": "Horsfieldia lancifolia",
"genericName": "Horsfieldia",
"specificEpithet": "lancifolia",
"taxonRank": "SPECIES",
"decimalLongitude": 121.75,
"decimalLatitude": -2.25,
"continent": "ASIA",
"stateProvince": "Sulawesi",
"year": 1979,
"month": 7,
"day": 11,
"occurrenceID":
"http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/spe
cimen/L.1769594”
}
Data
(GBIF)
Data

17. Xanadu in the 21st century?

18. text
Article Annotations
table
annotation
annotation

19. @hypothes_is

20. Annotating a scientific paper

21. Aggregating annotations (iPhylo)
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/aggregating-annotations-on-scientific_30.html

22. Deep linking requires a
culture of being open
@okfn

24. www.theplantlist.org

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28. http://doi.org/10.15468/btkum2

29. Open versus closed data and the
challenge of creating a 21stC flora
1. Data needs to be open (e.g., scientific names
– IPNI, I’m looking at you)
2. Scientific literature needs to be open access
(taxonomists I’m looking at you)
3. Question: How do we make (1) and (2)
happen?