[tdwg] Species pages and video
Wouter Addink
wouter at eti.uva.nl
Mon Aug 27 14:36:02 CEST 2007
Donat,
Good point. Although not completely true, because we also search for scientific articles and news sources. But like in this example: it is often easier to find an online wikipedia description than a online description from a scientific publication. That tells something about accessibility of the information...
Wouter
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From: Donat Agosti
To: 'Wouter Addink' ; tdwg at lists.tdwg.org
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 1:29 PM
Subject: RE: [tdwg] Species pages and video
Dear Wouter
Thanks for this link. From a scientific literature point of view, this demonstrates very nicely the absurdity of how we deal with scientific literature: At the bottom, there is a link to description, and the link goes to Wikipedia: This is fine in itself, but it questions why we bother to go through writing scientific publications describing species. You bother to have links to scientific names, and then in the next section one on commons names: here you care, but you do not make the same for species descriptions.
Donat
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From: tdwg-bounces at lists.tdwg.org [mailto:tdwg-bounces at lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Wouter Addink
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:38 PM
To: tdwg at lists.tdwg.org
Subject: Re: [tdwg] Species pages and video
Just another example...
http://www.nlbif.nl/species_details.php?name=Pluvialis%20apricaria&tab=2
Wouter Addink
----- Original Message -----
From: Rebecca Shapley
To: Timothy M. Jones
Cc: tdwg at lists.tdwg.org
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: [tdwg] Species pages and video
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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