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Following on from my [previous post on
microcitations](http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2011/03/microcitations-linking-nomenclators-to.html)
I\'ve blasted all the citations in [Nomenclator
Zoologicus](http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/) through my
microcitation service and created a simple web site where these results
can be browsed.  
  
The web site is here: <http://iphylo.org/~rpage/nz/>.  
  
To create it I\'ve taken a file dump of Nomenclator Zoologicus provided
by Dave Remsen and run all the citations through the microcitation
service, storing the results in a simple database. You can search by
genus name, author and year, or publication. The search is pretty crude,
and in the case of publications can be a bit hit and miss. Citations in
Nomenclator Zoologicus are stored as strings, so I\'ve used some crude
rules to try and extract the publication name from the rest of the
details (such as page numbering).  
  
To get started, you can look at names published by published by [Distant
in 1910](http://iphylo.org/~rpage/nz/?mode=author&q=Distant+1910), which
you can see below:  
  
![Nz1](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Gct8lVAxKqQ/TXTV0yz94VI/AAAAAAAAA2w/ZAlncFRsIGA/nz1.png?imgmax=800){style="display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"
border="0" width="400" height="260"}  
  
If the citation has been found you can click on the
![](http://iphylo.org/~rpage/nz/images/picture_empty.png){align="absmiddle"}
icon to view the page in a popup, like this:  
  
![Nz2](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Gct8lVAxKqQ/TXTV2Bo5OiI/AAAAAAAAA20/ArPmd7QcubY/nz2.png?imgmax=800){style="display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"
border="0" width="400" height="295"}  
  
You can also click on the page number to be taken to that page in BHL.  
  
  
I\'ve also added some other links, such as to the name in the [Index to
Organism Names](http://www.organismnames.com), as well as bibliographic
identifiers such as DOIs, Handles, and links to JSTOR and CiNii.  
  
So far only 10% of Nomenclator Zoologicus records have a match in BHL,
which is slightly depressing. Browsing through there are some obvious
gaps where my parser clearly failed, typically where multiple pages are
included in the citation, or the citation has some additional comments.
These could be fixed. There are also cases where the OCR text is so
mangled that a match has been rejected because the genus name and text
were too different.  
  
This has been hastily assembled, but it\'s one vision of a simple
service where we can go from genus name to being able to see the
original publication of that name. There are other things we could do
with this mapping, such as enabling BHL to tell users that the reference
they are looking at is the original source of a particular name, and
enabling services that use BHL content (such as EOL and Atlas of Living
Australia to flag which reference in BHL is the one that matters in
terms of nomenclature.


Following on from my previous post on microcitations I've blasted all the citations in Nomenclator Zoologicus through my microcitation service and created a simple web site where these results can be browsed.

Messaggi di Rogue Scholar

Nomenclator Zoologicus meets Biodiversity Heritage Library: linking names directly to literature