Building on Linnaeus: 260 Years of Taxonomic Annotation. Martin R. alfatovic. I Annotate - Annoto Ergo Sum, San Francisco, CA, 11 April 2013.

1. Building on Linnaeus
260 Years of Taxonomic Annotation

2. You are here*
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4. Taxonomic Impediment
Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’ literature
Index cards
Field notebooks

5. The Wherefore of Biodiversity
Heritage Library
The cultivation of
natural science cannot
be efficiently carried
on without reference
to an extensive library
Charles Darwin, et al
(1847)

6. 15 Member institutions …Formed in 2006
15 Members
•Academy of Natural Sciences Library
and Archives
•American Museum of Natural History
Library
•California Academy of Sciences Library
•Cornell University Library
•The Field Museum Library
•Harvard University Botany Libraries
•Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of
Comparative Zoology
•Library of Congress
•Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
•Missouri Botanical Garden Library
•Natural History Museum, London, Library
& Archives
•The New York Botanical Garden
•Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Library &
Archives
•Smithsonian Institution Libraries
•United States Geological Survey
Libraries

7. Biodiversity Heritage Library
Technology Library Science

8. DLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical Garden Art of Life project

10. Content Growth
2007-2013
40,565,052pages
112,282 items
58,792 titles
10 April 2013

11. 4+ million total views | 75K+ images (April 13)

14. TheMachineIsUs/ingUs
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15. Kings
Play
Chess
On
Fine
Grain
Sand

16. Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

17. Kings Kingdom
Play Phylum
Chess Class
On Order
Fine Family
Grain Genus
Sand Species

18. L.
Linnaeus
VIAF ID: 34594730
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778

22. This “lumping” and
“splitting”, renaming,
finding syonyms, etc.
caused a big problem
when taxonomy was all
done in print form ….

23. Notes and corrections to this
edition, by Strickland, occur
in Ann. & Mag. N.H., VIII,
Jan., 1842, pp. 367-375;
March, 1842, pp. 544-545

31. Darwin
Darwin
VIAF ID: 27063124
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

35. Biologia Centrali-American

37. Taxonomic Impediment
Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’ literature
Index cards
Field notebooks

38. U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-42

42. Plant specimens
document occurrence
Heuchera sanguinea Engelm.
Collection Information
Collectors: • Wislizenus
Collection Number: 210
Collection Date: 06 October 1846
Location: Mexico, Chihuahua
Elevation: 7,000 ft
Description: Crimson flower
Locality: Mountains, rocks, at
Llanos near
Cosiquiriachi.

43. Data origin & annotation over time
< 1.Field label: origin of data
4.Annotation: revision >
^ 2.Herbarium label: synthesized data ^ 3.Annotation: locality

46. Thanks for sticking around!
And thanks to …
Chris Freeland
Suzanne Pilsk
Daria Wingreen-Mason
Leslie Overstreet