Detailed overview:
RefBank Search
Title: RefBank Search
Identifier: http://vbrant.ipd.uka.de/RefBank/
Identifier alternative: http://www9.open.ac.uk/RefBank/search
Creator: Natural History Museum <London>; et al.
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Abstract: ViBRANT recognised the need for a bibliography of life, i.e. a freely accessible bibliography of every taxonomic paper ever published. None of the currently available aggregators were satisfactory, so we have chosen to extend the Plazi bibliographic tool, RefBank. There are two primary reasons for this choice, first the original developer, Guido Sautter, is a partner in ViBRANT and second, RefBank contains a parsing tool that will turn Rod Page's "cryptic text strings" into structured references that can be easily transformed into any of the other conventional forms (see the Data Format Report). The bulk of RefBank's growth to date has come from ViBRANT contributed references, with 80,000 references being accumulated in the first six months of operation and another 85,000 references in the second six months. Work continues within ViBRANT to extract bibliographies from published works and parse them to generate more references. This work is to ensure that RefBank is seeded with sufficient references at launch so as to engage users. There was a significant development for RefBank in Autumn 2012 when it was the subject of a presentation and demonstration at TDWG 2013. Since when we have seen the addition of community contributed references. A more formal launch of RefBank, probably in conjunction with related ViBRANT developed tools, is planned for Summer/Autumn 2013. (http://vbrant.eu/content/communal-literature) [Miscellaneous as indicated]
Subject: Classification in biology (570.12);
Organizations and management (570.6)
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Audience: Intermediate; Experts
Language: English
Format: website; database
Resource type: Literature databases
Access: free
Metadata update date: 2014-07-09
Metadata provider: UBFfm
URL of this vifabio-resource: http://www.vifabio.de/en/iqfBio/detail/8194
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