iSpecies and Google invisible content

[David at]

A solution that we use for Google invisible content is to
build linkouts into remote databases.  This arrangement
allows one site to become an expert portal to a subset of
what is available through the internet.  This device can
be used to create custom and expert experiences of the
internet.  This can be seen at e.g.
http://starcentral.mbl.edu/mv/portal.php?pagetitle=classification&BLOCKID=9&CHILDID=4157

This site uses a backbone of names in a hierarchy, and the
names are drawn from the uBio NameBank environment.  This
approach can be used to tie expert remote resources to any
taxon covered by NameBank.  The environment is under
development so that it can be made widely available, but
in the interim we can always add outlinks to any specified
clades - so just let us know if you wish to be added.

David Patterson





the site builder to make the site On Wed, 2 Nov 2005
11:55:44 -0500
  steve Lingafelter <slingafelter at SEL.BARC.USDA.GOV>
wrote:
> Looks like this will be a very powerful site.
> Unfortunately there are
> lots of images and documents out there that aren't found
>by Google,
> Yahoo, etc, despite specifically sending them
>information on new
> websites etc. and waiting months.
>
>For example, I have a website on Images of Holotypes of
>Cerambycidae of
> the Smithsonian Institution [insert shameless plug
>here:]
>
> www.elaphidion.com
>
> with thousands of images, many of taxa that otherwise
>have absolutely
> no hits on any search engine.  They are only on my site,
>yet they are
> often overlooked by the search engines and your site.
> So it seems that
> it is still necessary to have a large library of
>bookmarks to cover all
> the bases without overreliance on a "simplified" search
>tool that will
> overlook many things.
>
> Steve
>
>
> ______________________
> Steven W. Lingafelter, Ph. D.
> Systematic Entomology Lab, USDA
> MRC-I68
> National Museum of Natural History
> Smithsonian Institute PO Box 37012
> Washington, DC 20013-7012
>
> Phone: 202-382-1793
> Email: slingafe at sel.barc.usda.gov
>
>
>>>> Roderic Page <r.page at BIO.GLA.AC.UK> - 11/2/05 11:23 AM
>>>>>>>
>For fun I've created a site that searches three data
>sources - NCBI,
> Yahoo images, and Google Scholar for information on a
>taxonomic name.
> If you type in a name you get information on whether
>that organism has
> been sequenced (and if so, how many sequences are
>available), the
> first
> five images Yahoo finds on the web, and up to 10
>documents from Google
> Scholar (with DOIs and links to PubMed, where available
>).
>
> If you'd like to try it go to http://ispecies.org
>(you'll get
> forwarded
> to a machine here in Glasgow).
>
> I know there are all sorts of problems with searching on
>names, but
> I've found it to be fun to see just how much information
>is out there.
>
> Example links to try are:
>
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Pediculus+humanus
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Rhea+americana
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Anthonomus+grandis
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?
> q=Florinemestrius+pulcherrimus
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Agathis+australis
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/?q=Banksia+coccinea
>
> Please be aware that the image search can sometime
>produce images you
> might not want children or the faint hearted to see --
>despite Yahoo
> claiming it filters adult content. You have been
>warned...
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
>
> Professor Roderic D. M. Page
> Editor, Systematic Biology
> DEEB, IBLS
> Graham Kerr Building
> University of Glasgow
> Glasgow G12 8QP
> United Kingdom
>
> Phone:    +44 141 330 4778
>Fax:      +44 141 330 2792
> email:    r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk
> web:      http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html
> reprints:
>http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/pubs.html
>
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>Systematic
> Biologists Website:  http://systematicbiology.org
> Search for taxon names at
> http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/portal/

David J Patterson
Bay Paul Center
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole
Massachusetts 02543
USA

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