[tdwg] Species pages and video

[Dave Roberts]

Dear all,

this idea has clearly occurred to several of us.

You may also have seen in the latest EDIT newsletter
http://www.e-taxonomy.eu/news.php?optimurl=Newsletter--4
an article describing 'Scratchpads'. These are web sites that EDIT  
are making available to foster collaboration between taxonomists.  
More than twenty communities are already using their Scratchpad to  
share, manage and integrate taxonomic data on the web.

The import and display of spatial data using a Google Maps API is  
used as an example of 'custom data' and there is a screencast to show  
you how its done.

We would like to encourage people to take advantage of these sites,  
either by collaborating with an existing site or by starting a new  
one. A little technical skill is required to manage a site, but we  
provide an extensive collection of videos to help users get started
http://www.editwebrevisions.info/help).

The system to support these sites is based at the Natural History  
Museum in London, but site content is owned and managed by the  
communities that created them. The NHML will support the server for  
the foreseeable future, certainly beyond the life of the EDIT project  
itself.

To learn more, direct your colleagues to: http:// 
www.editwebrevisions.info/scratchpads

Take a look at the current sites:
http://www.editwebrevisions.info/SiteList

Or try a demonstration:
http://sandbox.editwebrevisions.info/

Finally, there will be several talks about EDIT in Bratislava and  
there are two discussing these scratchpads in particular.

Cheers,  Dave Roberts
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On 15 Aug 2007, at 23:05, Rebecca Shapley wrote:

> Great to see map information with the species, and using Google  
> Earth is
> exciting.
>
> It would be nice if some representation or preview of the map  
> appeared right
> on the page... worth taking a look at the Google Maps API.  Helps  
> you know
> if it's worth the extra click & switching to the other app. Also,  
> did you
> know that KMLs will show up on maps.google.com too?  It's called  
> "kml on
> maps" - might help with what you're looking for.
>
> Best,
>
> -Rebecca Shapley
>
>
>
> On 8/10/07, Timothy M. Jones <tpolonski at adelphia.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I will not be attending the meeting this fall  but  thought that this
>> may be of interest to those interested in species pages models.
>> I am working on species pages that include the use of video.  The  
>> videos
>> were only added a month ago and are a bit rudimentary
>> (with budget-conscious equipment) but the potential now seems truly
>> limitless.
>>
>> Examples -
>> http://utc.usu.edu/factsheets/CarexFSF/new/carex_eburnea_species.htm
>>
>> http://utc.usu.edu/factsheets/CarexFSF/new/ 
>> carex_nebrascensis_species.htm
>>
>> http://utc.usu.edu/factsheets/CarexFSF/new/ 
>> carex_mitchelliana_species.htm
>>
>> Comments appreciated,
>> Timothy M. Jones
>> http://utc.usu.edu/keys/Carex/Carex.html
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Dr D.McL. Roberts,        Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5086
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy Project,
Ccordinator WorkPackage 6 (Unifying Revisionary Taxonomy),
Dept. Zoology,
The Natural History Museum,
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London        SW7 5BD
Great Britain             Email: dmr at nomencurator.org
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