Project: Papers: Procedure

Collecting the existing published papers into a single collection, making them more available to researchers and amateurs. This, of course, is subject to copyright limitations, but as may of the relevant papers are in excess of 50 years old, this should not present an overwhelming problem.

For each paper, I perform the same procedure, to make sure I don't overlook anything. I've layed it out here as a checklist. That way, I can print out a copy of this page, and tick things off as I go.

If it isn't in English, obtain a translation.
If permitted by copyright: Scan the paper into the computer, and turn it into text using OCR. Create a directory under papers/ to hold it.
For each species mentioned in the paper
- If it is an Australian native species I've not seen mentioned before (checking first for synonyms in Balderson 1998) create a directory for it in the appropriate place beneath the phasmatodea/ directory tree structure.
- Extract description details, particularly looking for
  - Adult (male, female)
  - Nymph, each instar (male, female)
  - Egg
  It will often be necessary to translate into laymans terms.
- Extract sightings locations. Specific lat/long locations to be placed into sightings tables. Vague generalizations (e.g. ``NSW'') aren't sufficient.
- Extract details of the food plants, by species if possible.
- In the ``References'' section for the species, add a line for this paper, hyper-linking back into the paper under the papers/ tree.
- If the paper is out of copyright and contains pictures or figures, link them to the species, but store them in the papers tree.
For each paper cited in the Bibliography / References section of the paper
- If I already have it, hyper-link it into the relevant paper in the papers/ directory.
- If I don't already have it, add it to the To Do list.
If the paper was previously on the To Do list, remove it.
Check newer papers, and if this paper appears in their Bibliography / References section, hyper-link to the new document.