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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:30:30 -0400
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To: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
Cc: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: Internet Citation Concerns
Mike, Thanks for your comments and suggestions. The ISPN will have a=20 Publicity Committee, which should be established by January 1.=20 According to the ISPN bylaws, this committee will be chaired by a= =20 Webmaster and have two additional members. The Publicity Committee= =20 will oversee the development and content of the website. The issues= =20 you bring up here should be considered by that committee once it is= =20 established. I don't anticipate the website remaining at Ohio University. I=20 arranged for it to be hosted here and have served as its webmaster= =20 because there was a need to make the first draft of the PhyloCode= =20 publicly available, but I have been hindered by my own lack of=20 knowledge about internet technology. (My son, who was 18 at the=20 time, helped design the site, which I could not have done otherwise.)= =20 It is high time that someone more computer-savvy than I took over the= =20 role of webmaster, and I will be relieved to transfer responsibility= =20 for the web site to the Publicity Committee. Sometime in the relatively near future, the President of the ISPN= =20 (Kevin) will solicit nominations for membership on the Publicity=20 Committee, including webmaster. If you are interested in being=20 nominated, let me know. You would have to be a member of the ISPN to= =20 serve on a committee. The Council will, I hope, soon make a decision= =20 on the fee structure so that people who did not attend the Paris=20 meeting may join. Phil > > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:02:13 -0400 > > From: Philip Cantino <cantino@ohiou.edu> >> >>> Cantino, P. D., and de Queiroz, K. (2003). "PhyloCode: A >>> Phylogenetic Code of Biological Nomenclature (Version 2)." >>> Available On-Line (http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode). >> >> Yes, this is fine, except that the version that is now online is >> Version 2b and the year is 2004. When citing electronic >> publications, it is probably best to say something like "most rec= ent >> revision June 17, 2004". > >For the purposes of citation stability, it is very desirable that ea= ch >version ofd the PhyloCode should have its own persistent URL that do= es >not change when a newer version becomes available. Then I can say >that a name is created in accordance with version 2b which is >available (and always will be) at >=09http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/PhyloCode2b.pdf >I would like to see a recommendation that citations of the PhyloCode >give the URL for the specific version that is used. > >I am pleased to see that the site does indeed have an archive of old= er >versions of the code: >=09http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/PhyloCode.pdf [version 1, I guess?= ] >=09http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/PhyloCode2.pdf >=09http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/PhyloCode2a.pdf >=09http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/PhyloCode2b.pdf >but it would be good to see the naming convention made explicit, and >to have a dedicated "older versions" page on the web-site. > >Finally, the URL >=09http://www.phylocode.org/ >currently redirects to >=09http://www.ohiou.edu/phylocode/ >which is helpful; but it would be better if the site actually lived = at >www.phylocode.org, so that more appropriate URLs such as >=09http://www.phylocode.org/PhyloCode2b.pdf >worked as expected. In the longer term, it doesn't seem appropriate >that the PhyloCode should be tied to Ohio University. > >Hope these thoughts are helpful. > > _/|_=09 __________________________________________________________= _____ >/o ) \/ Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> http://www.miketaylor.or= g.uk >)_v__/\ "A win as predictable as it was unexpected" -- Ian XXX, >=09 on Millwall 2, Rotherham 0, 15/2/97 > >-- >Listen to free demos of soundtrack music for film, TV and radio >=09http://www.pipedreaming.org.uk/soundtrack/ --=20 Philip D. Cantino Professor and Associate Chair Department of Environmental and Plant Biology Ohio University Athens, OH 45701-2979 U.S.A. Phone: (740) 593-1128; 593-1126 Fax: (740) 593-1130 e-mail: cantino@ohio.edu