Dear Zac,
I think that the idea is, on principle, a good one and I would
certainly add my publications.
In practice, however, similar efforts have been put in place over
time. For instance, Dennis Slice used to maintain a list of papers on
the morphometrics.org website. Since long, Mauro Cavalcanti has
maintained a fairly comprehensive list of fish geometric morphometric
papers and, more recently, a more general website with morphometric
papers called MorphoLib http://morpholib.netai.net/cms/ where papers
are categorized by organism.
Now, I guess the main difference of this new effort you are proposing
is that it would be crowdsourced.
One of the problems of this and similar efforts is that geometric
morphometrics is now so popular that it becomes hard to imagine to
catalog all geometric morphometric papers.
Considering that a resource like MorphoLib already exists and how
powerful even a simple Google Scholar search can be, I wonder if it
would be more useful to the community to have some more focused
bibliography/list.
An idea could be to include just methodological (or mainly
methodological) papers. This is because methodological papers are
sometimes hard to find using generic searches (such as "geometric
morphometrics" which would return a mix of empirical and
methodological papers, even a more focused search would often return a
mixture of empirical and methodological paper). Older methodological
papers are also sometimes "forgotten" by authors when writing
manuscripts in favour of more recent papers and/or the software
implementing those methods (I am possibly guilty of this myself, even
if I try to avoid it).
Perhaps, having some list of methodological references (organized by
topic) would help and, being more focused, would be more comprehensive
and easier to maintain than a generic geometric morphometric papers
list.
Again, this is not to discourage a commendable effort, but rather, to
provide my opinion on what might be more useful to the community.
Just my two cents,
Carmelo
"Robert Z. Selden, Jr." <[email protected]> ha scritto:
In an attempt to centralize the large wealth (and breadth) of knowledge
generated through studies of geometric morphometrics, I thought that we
might all collaborate on a working bibliography. And since geometric
morphometrics is comprised of a fairly tight-knit international community,
why not make this a crowdsourced project?
Since the great majority of practitioners are familiar-at least
peripherally-with scripting, the bibliography is maintained in BibTeX, and
can be edited in Overleaf. Additionally, using the field "annote," the
abstracts for each paper can be included. Further still, the BibTeX text in
the GMBib.bib file can be cut, then pasted into a text file, where it can be
imported to a number of reference and .pdf managers.
I do ask that if you add a citation, you follow the current (BibTeX) format,
and also place each new reference in alphabetical order (let Overleaf
refresh after each entry to ensure there are no errors). This will help us
to ensure that we are not duplicating citations that have already been
added. Additionally, if you have more information (abstract, DOI, etc.) for
a reference in the bibliography that is currently posted, please add that
information.
The goal of this endeavor is to maintain an active (and accurate) list of
publications related to geometric morphometrics that can be used in
classrooms, laboratories, and-yes-your own personal reference manager, and
to have it maintained by the community of practitioners. So please add your
new publications as soon as they're available!
To begin adding references to the current bibliography, click
<https://www.overleaf.com/4563493vqjzwm> here.
To generate a searchable .pdf of the current bibliography, simply click on
the PDF tab at the top of the screen in Overleaf. Feel free to share the
Read and Edit link (
<https://wordpress.com/page/crhrarchaeology.wordpress.com/89371>
https://wordpress.com/page/crhrarchaeology.wordpress.com/89371) with
colleagues and co-workers.
Any and all users can add new references and edit existing references using
<https://wordpress.com/page/crhrarchaeology.wordpress.com/89371> this link.
If you run into any issues, or just have questions, please forward those
along.
I've also added a link to my blog
(https://crhrarchaeology.wordpress.com/morphometrics/gm-bibliography-project
/) where this same text is posted (archaeologists are nothing if not
redundant). Many thanks in advance for your contributions-I think that this
can be a great resource.
Best,
Zac
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Honorary Fellow - University of Catania - Catania, Italy
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Honorary Fellow - University of Catania - Catania, Italy
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