Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Open Access taxonomy


Pyramica boltoni
Originally uploaded by Roderic Page.
Fussing around with ants, I stumbled across this paper (doi:10.1653/0015-4040(2006)89[1:PBANSO]2.0.CO;2) (if the DOI doesn't work, try this link), which describes a new species, Pyramica boltoni. This paper is Open Access, so the question arises, how do I get it into a triple store? I could add the metadata about the paper (it would be nice to do this automatically via Connotea and the DOI, but some BioOne DOIs aren't "live" yet), but what about things like the pictures?
For fun, I grabbed Fig. 1, uploaded it into iPhoto, then exported it to Flickr using the FlickrExport plugin.
Flickr has an API, hence the image (and the associated tags) could be retrieved automatically. Hence, anybody with Connotea and Flickr accounts could contribute to a triple store.