Smithsonian Cerambycidae Holotype Image Database

[steve Lingafelter]

OK, another promotion, less disguised...

Thanks everyone for the comments on Elaphidion.com

My goal is to get the greatest visibility and use of the information,
so I will try and get the code modifications incorporated soon.  I will
also try and forward the list of species to those who would like to make
links to their websites, but I will have to get back to that in December
because of upcoming fieldwork.

The list of species (List All) was something we added recently after
realizing that the search-spiders weren't getting into the database.  It
is a shame that some search engines also use image filenames which are
by necessity truncated and therefore would not accurately show up in
results.  I may try and do a batch change for all file names, but that
is out of my realm of expertise and will have to be handled by future
contract with Gino Nearns who developed the website.  Paul, Rod, & David
thanks very much for your suggestions and I will forward your email to
Gino so he may see if he can make those changes.

Regarding the data, there are actually much more data that are hidden
and I chose to show only the fields that I had checked more carefully
(and those that I considered most important for most users.)  The
primary use of the site is to establish the location and identity of the
holotypes at the Smithsonian Institution and serve as an identification
tool (Most Cerambycidae are very amenable to ID from dorsal view).
However, full label data and synonymical info is coming, as are images
of Casey material.  When it is in a more final format (in the year 2040
or thereabouts) I will migrate it over to the Smithsonian site.

--Steve


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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


>>> Julian H <humphries at mail.utexas.edu> - 11/2/05 12:10 PM >>>
At 10:55 AM 11/2/2005, steve Lingafelter wrote:
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>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.


Well, Google seems to find many (all?) of the pages in your database
(e.g. Noemia submetallica returns just fine). It doesn't find the
images, I suspect because your alternate text runs the name together
( Noemiasubmetallica.jpg) it fails to find the image.  I would
suggest trying the actual name there.  Google find images on
Digimorph in what I assume is exactly that way, despite the fact that
our file names are meaningless.

Very nice and fast site.  Is there a reason you don't include more
data with the images?

Julian



Julian Humphries
DigiMorph.Org
Geological Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
512-471-3275