[Taxacom] Google Gadget knock-off for taxonomic resources (hosted images, maps, etc.)

[Adorian Ardelean]

Hi Tim,

KML, a file format very similar to XML and easy to build on the fly.

Seems that we all tree work on the same idea, but 
at different taxonomic levels and on different geographic range.

Examples of Google Earth links can be seen also in the myNature Project portal:

http://mybiosis.org/nature/portal.php?pagename=novels&novelid=8

I know it is in Romanian, but you will know to 
click on Google Earth links near Cypripedium 
calceolus and Adonis vernalis links. Choose open 
with GE and the earth will swirl and zoom to 
Romanian land :-). I think you will like it.

To visit the species pages (similar to what you 
have) you will need to register (but perhaps it is worth)
http://mybiosis.org/nature/portal.php?pagename=taxon_details&genus=Cypripedium&subgenus=&species=calceolus&subspecies=&highertaxon=ORCHIDACEAE&dataset=PLANTS&languagename=English

http://mybiosis.org/nature/portal.php?pagename=taxon_details&genus=Adonis&subgenus=&species=vernalis&subspecies=&highertaxon=RANUNCULACEAE&dataset=PLANTS&languagename=English

Look forward to hear your reactions.

Sincerely,
Adorian


At 00:57 24.10.2006, Timothy M. Jones wrote:

>The Google Earth Stuff is incredible.  Curious how you are driving the
>markers, XML?
>Tim
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>Shorthouse, David wrote:
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> > Since a number of subscribers to this listserv host imagery, maps, and the
> > like on institutional and other websites, I thought I would pass along a
> > feature I recently designed in the Nearctic 
> Spider Database that permits the
> > propagation of appropriate credit, site presence, and nomenclature when a
> > user wishes to lift imagery for their own web site(s). I took a hint from
> > Google's Gadget system and also permit configuration of these such that a
> > web page author may design them in real-time to best match their website's
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> > To see this in action, click a "Link It" button on the following page:
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> > http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.org/data/spiders/18757
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> > For those of you who are web-minded, these "gadgets" are merely
> > dynamically-created JavaScript that download to the client browser. The
> > advantage is smooth delivery without breaking one's webpage should the item
> > be undeliverable, but the disadvantage is that the host must accept
> > JavaScript (rules out most blogs and forums).
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> > David P. Shorthouse
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http://greendorf.com [botanical illustration]
http://planktonnet.awi.de/portal.php?pagetitle=index [planktonNet]

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http://www.ubio.org [uBio Project]
http://portal.ubio.org [uBio Portal]
http://microscope.mbl.edu [micro*scope Project]
http://starcentral.mbl.edu/biopedia [BioPedia]
http://starcentral.mbl.edu/custar [CU*STAR]

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