[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 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  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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