http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~jgomez/biojs/registry/index.html describes an object-oriented library (and mechanisms for extending it) of JavaScript components that can probably be easily extended to other biodiversity informatics concerns than the ones in the library. This could make it quite easy to have common look-and-feel web apps within and between projects. Further details and participation at http://code.google.com/p/biojs/ --Bob -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor  of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 IT Staff Filtered Push Project Harvard University Herbaria Harvard University email: morris.bob@gmail.com web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram === The content of this communication is made entirely on my own behalf and in no way should be deemed to express official positions of The University of Massachusetts at Boston or Harvard University.