PLAZI Treatment Repository

Willi Egloff & Donat AgostiRDA 4th Plenary

CODATA Legal Interoperability IGAmsterdam, September 22, 2014

Institutionalize access to treatments

publications or (more frequently) sections of publications documenting the features or distribution of a related group of organisms (called a “taxon”, plural “taxa”) in ways adhering to highly formalized conventions. Some of these are over a century old. [Catapano, 2011]

Each taxonomic name usage has a treatment

>> 50 M treatments published: the knowledge of the world’s species

Plazi Treatment Repository

Plazi related publications

Treatment?

structureedTreatment (1)

Journal run

Atrticle

Treatment

vendor

scientist

Scientist / crowd

Vendor - level

General markup

structured treatment (2) and data

markup programs

services

Domain - level

Domain specific markup

Publication

lega

cypr

ospe

ctive

Taxpub (1) (zookeys)

Taxpub (2) BDJ

scripting scientist

scientist

crowd

Work Data Work OpenAccess

1. Publication conversion workflow

Extraction of treatments

•Art. 19 CPA-CH (internal use)• § 50 II CPA-DK, art. 42 h CPA-S (extended collective

license)?• „fair use“?• future copyright and database right exceptions for

research purposes?

1. Publication conversion workflow

Get name

«please give me the treatment of taxon X»

Treatment of taxon X?

Name present

TreatCit present?

no yesGet treatment

Treatment of taxon X

yes

TreatCit Treatment Citation (=BibRef+page#)BibRef Bibliographic ReferenceAuthorY Author and year of publication of a taxon

yes

PDF present?

Get treatCit

yes

Extract treatmentExtract treat?

yes

Enter name?

Good Bye

no

no

BibRef present?

AuthorY present?

PDF present?

Get PDF

Create TreatCit?

TreatCit

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Find it externallyno

Find it externallyno

Add PDF to BLR no

Good Bye

noyes

Right treatment?

yes

no

no

Good Bye

no

GNUB

REFBANK SRS

BLR (open /closed)

DMA

BLR Biodiversity Literature RepositoryDMA Document Main ArchiveGNUB Global Name Usage BankRefBank Bibliographic Reference DatabaseSRS Treatment Server

1. Publication conversion workflow

Biodiversity Literature Repository•Open sector:• not copyrightable text and data• public domain documents• works, whose protection period is expired• works with CC0-waver or CC-BY-license

• Closed sector:• sensitive data• copyright protected works (for internal use only)

1. Publication conversion workflow

2 Barriers

Reasons for not opening upFinancial interests of publishersFinancial interests of scientific societiesConcerns for third world scientists about costs of publishingProtecting competitive advantageSome of the data has been acquired under certain restrictive conditionsCopyright has been transferred to a publisherCopyright owner unknownRisk adversity

MisconceptionsCopyright as a guarantee of citationCopyright as a sign of the quality of workI collected the data, therefore they are mine

TraditionI never thought about it

Bouchout Declaration

Blue List

Study of extensive collective licences for Switzerland

3. Ongoing developments

Signatories of the Bouchout Declaration

Pro-iBiosphere project team members

Collecting societies in Switzerland

4. Stakeholder Involvement

Under discussion in the followup process of the Bouchout Declaration

5 Progress in implementing legal interoperability

6 . The level of information about legal issues

• Egloff W, Patterson D, Agosti D, Hagedorn G 2014. Open exchange of scientific knowledge and European copyright: The case of biodiversity information. ZooKeys 414, 109-135. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.414.7717• Egloff W, 2014. Access to scientific and technical information - between social

needs and private interests. (English translation of: Egloff W, 2014. Der Zugang zu Fachinformationen – zwischen gesellschaftlicher Notwendigkeit und privatem Verwertungsinteresse In: Hansjürgen Garstka, Wolfgang Coy (Hg.), Wovon - für wen - wozu. Systemdenken wider die Diktatur der Daten, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, S. 349-373, ISBN 978-3-86004-298-4. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10378• Patterson DJ, Egloff W, Agosti D, Eades D, Franz N, Hagedorn G, Rees J, Remsen DP

2014. Scientific names of organisms: attribution, rights, and licensing . BMC Research Notes 2014, 7:79 doi:10.1186/1756-0500-7-79,• Agosti, D., W. Egloff. 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the

Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53, doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-53

Thanks!

Willi Egloff & Donat AgostiPlazi

info@plazi.org