The formatted citation should be presented in PubMed tagged field format (or similar) that can be incorporated into a reference manager. EndNote supports two appropriate content types, 'web page' and 'electronic article', although in the latter case we would be stretching the idea of an electronic journal to include Scratchpads.
The user name should be presented as a Surname, Firstname. This may mean implementation of the bio module to ensure that all sites have access to the required data. There are going to be increasing numbers of occasions when the early-adopter sites do not match the data standards that we are now beginning to realise, but that should not prevent us from putting the new system in place and bringing the older systems up to scratch. The incentive, after all, is that your contribution is easily and conventionally recognised but only if you bring your personal content up to standard. It does not matter that GBIF and Yahoo are not individuals; they can have data originator names when those systems see the desirability of adding that meta-data element.
These modifications are important so that the citations can be incorporated into conventional citation systems, especially the Harvard convention of in-text citation (author, date).
The formatted citation should be presented in PubMed tagged field format (or similar) that can be incorporated into a reference manager. EndNote supports two appropriate content types, 'web page' and 'electronic article', although in the latter case we would be stretching the idea of an electronic journal to include Scratchpads.
The user name should be presented as a Surname, Firstname. This may mean implementation of the bio module to ensure that all sites have access to the required data. There are going to be increasing numbers of occasions when the early-adopter sites do not match the data standards that we are now beginning to realise, but that should not prevent us from putting the new system in place and bringing the older systems up to scratch. The incentive, after all, is that your contribution is easily and conventionally recognised but only if you bring your personal content up to standard. It does not matter that GBIF and Yahoo are not individuals; they can have data originator names when those systems see the desirability of adding that meta-data element.
These modifications are important so that the citations can be incorporated into conventional citation systems, especially the Harvard convention of in-text citation (author, date).