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Reading a recent TAXACOM thread (Species Pages - purpose) my sense is that some people are arguing that "species pages" would be time consuming to create, aren't much good for taxonomists (to quote Mike Dallwitz "In brief, to make simplified and attractive...
Another issue I'm trying to get my head around is how to deal with labels in phylogenies. These can be any number of things, such as GenBank sequences, specimen codes, taxon names, abbreviations of taxon names, laboratory codes, etc. Here's my quick attempt...
I rather skirted around the notion of "taxonomic concepts" in the previous post, partly because it's easy to end up with trying to have a concept for each utterance every made by a taxonomist, and that doesn't seem, er, scalable. So, I have a more limited view...
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linked to by 4Some thoughts on the first release of the Encyclopedia of Life. I am being deliberately critical. This is a high profile project with tens of millions of dollars in funding, lots of people involved, and is accompanied by some of the most overblown hype in organismal...
linked to by 2The Encyclopedia of Life web site is up, together with some rather breathless publicity and this cool movie. Of course, it's all vapourware just now. I'm involved in some of the informatics in an advisory role. It will be interesting to see what happens. Let's...
Found this while Googling. Demo by Perceptive Pixel of browsing the ITIS classification using their multi-touch technology. I want one......
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Linnaeus Legacy is a blog carnival that seeks to highlight and celebrate Carl Linnaeus and his many contributions to science. Linnaeus left a lot of legacy to look at - taxonomy, biodiversity, botany and ecology were fields either created or heavily influenced...
... You'll have to watch to find out!Hat Tip to Rod Page. Aptostichus stephencolberti is described in the latest issue of Systematic Biology(DOI:10.1080/10635150802302443)....
iPhylo is now available on Google Code. As Rod Page explains on his blog, inspired by Pedro, the goal is to use Google Code as a project management system, i.e. a place to store more than just code but docs and data as well (why not, you have good version control)....