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Plazi is an association supporting and promoting the development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature. To this end Plazi will:
* Maintain a digital taxonomic literature repository to enable archiving of taxonomic treatments.
* Enhance submitted taxonomic treatments by creating TaxonX and Taxpub XML versions.
* Participate in the development of new models for publishing taxonomic treatments in order to maximize interoperability with other relevant cyberinfrastructure components (e.g., name servers, biodiversity resources, etc...)
* Advocate and educate about the vital importance of maintaining free and open access to scientific discourse and data.
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Attribution, Rights and Licensing of scientific names of organisms and compilation of names
Plazi participated in a workshop, held at Arizona State University, April 15 -17, 2013
The Global Names Project invited to a workshop to explore options and to make
recommendations as to issues that relate to attribution, rights and licensing of names and compilations of names. The aim of the workshop that was held from April 15 to 17, 2013, at the Arizona State University in Tempe was the elaborating of a report that clarifies if and how we share names.
The workshop led together a group of biologists with lawyers working in the sector of biology. The group headed by David J. Patterson (Global Names Project) was composed of David Eades (Catalogue of Life), George Garrity (Names4Life Services), Charles Miller (Global Names Project / Tropicos), Jonathan Rees (Open Trees) and Dave Remsen (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). The legal experts were Romy Drysdale (General Counsel at Arizona Technology Enterprises), Willi Egloff (Plazi), Puneet Kishor (Creative Commons) and Art Lee (General Counsel for Arizona State Univerity).
