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Re: The myth of coding from specimens firsthand and the untapped resource of photos
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- Subject: Re: The myth of coding from specimens firsthand and the untapped resource of photos
- From: Heinrich Mallison <heinrich.mallison@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:23:20 +0200
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I fully agree that it is always the specimen one SHOULD code from.
I also agree that in the time of decreasing funding and increasing
quality of photographs a digital database accessible to all is the
best alternative.
For me, the most problematic issue here seems to be copyright. Until
thjat is sorted out the utility of a database will be very limited.
Therefore, I can only recommend publishing in open-access journals
that allow unlimited, high-resolution color figures. Palaeontologia
Electronica comes to mind.
(Full disclosure: I am a style editor at PE)
:)
Heinrich