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TaxonGrab

Drew Koning has developed TaxonGrab, a useful tool written in PHP for harvesting taxonomic names from literature. With this kind of tool, names could be harvested to populate taxonomic name servers. Better yet, imagine tools like this automatically crawling and linking taxonomic names from all those full text PDF's you have.

By Vince Smith at Jun 20 2005 - 20:22 | add new comment

Yes, but...

It's a nice start, but rather limited. I posted some comments on TAXACOM.

I think there is a lot of scope for a better tool, one that handles a greater variety of taxonomic names, and associates "A. bus" with the genus "Aus", for example.

By Roderic Page at June 21, 2005 - 05:14 | reply