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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=609253422-13092007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Open source is definitely the way to go with EoL, of
course. But I was thinking more in terms of the presentation style.
Not for scientists, necessarily, but for "regular folk" who want to be able to
navigate the deep/righ world of biodiversity informatics in an intuitive
way. If the schematic.com approach is scalable (by several orders of
magnitude -- both in breadth and depth), then I think it has great
potential. I'm thinking of tumbnail images of (say) species on each of the
tiles, which when zoomed out far enough meld together into representative
thumbnails of families...and so on. The maginified highlight for trees are
also very functional and intuitive.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=609253422-13092007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Rod page had another dynamic interface a couple years ago,
but I forget the name.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=609253422-13092007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Rich</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Shorthouse, David
[mailto:dps1@ualberta.ca] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:22
PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Richard Pyle'; 'Rebecca Shapley'; tdwg@lists.tdwg.org;
'Denise Green'; bmishler@berkeley.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [tdwg]
Interesting example of tree navigation<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Indeed,
this sort of Flash/Flex-based application is on the table...but, I find this a
bit like mystery meat navigation. More specifically, I have been in touch with
developers of Mindomo (<A
href="http://www.mindomo.com">http://www.mindomo.com</A>) for use in EoL’s
WorkBench environment using Adobe’s AIR for a desktop/web hybrid. Mind maps,
tied down with Semantic Web technologies like that used in MindRaider (<A
href="http://mindraider.sourceforge.net/index.html">http://mindraider.sourceforge.net/index.html</A>)
are what I’m aiming for.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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P. Shorthouse<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Department
of Biological Sciences<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">CW-403,
Biological Sciences Centre<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">University
of Alberta<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Edmonton,
AB T6G 2E9<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">mailto:dps1@ualberta.ca<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.org<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">http://www.spiderwebwatch.org<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">http://ispiders.blogspot.com<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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tdwg-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] <B>On Behalf
Of </B>Richard Pyle<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:43
PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Rebecca Shapley'; tdwg@lists.tdwg.org; 'Denise Green';
bmishler@berkeley.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [tdwg] Interesting example of
tree navigation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">WOW!!
Very slick!!! EoL should be all over this!</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">I
would say the whole page is a useful model -- not just the tree part (by which
I assume you meant the "Project Process" tile). The whole approach to
organizing and presenting (i.e., zoom & pan) information is
wonderful! It took a little "getting-used-to", but once I got the hang
of it, I really liked it.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">I
gather that it's Flash? (I mean in the Macromedia/Adobe sense ... I
already know it's "Flash" in the slang sense.)</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">A
little sluggish -- but well worth it, I think.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aloha,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rich</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
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tdwg-bounces@lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Rebecca Shapley<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 13, 2007
10:25 AM<BR><B>To:</B> tdwg@lists.tdwg.org; Denise Green;
bmishler@berkeley.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> [tdwg] Interesting example of tree
navigation</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt">This is not only a
fascinating website in general, but in one spot has a quite novel - not
perfect, but nicely innovative - interaction model for a tree of
information. Does a decent job of both showing the overview of
information available and offering more information at various levels, in
context, in response to interaction. <BR><A
href="http://www.schematic.com/#/HowWeDoIt/ProjectProcess/">http://www.schematic.com/#/HowWeDoIt/ProjectProcess/</A><BR><BR>-R.
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