[Taxacom] RSS feeds for new (or newly digitised) names

[Roderic Page]

Dear All,

I've been exploring the idea of a service that integrates RSS feeds  
containing information on biodiversity (broadly defined). A bit like  
uBio's RSS ( http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=ubioRSS ) but with  
additional types of information. In order to make tis happen I need to  
create feeds for databases that don't have them, and some of these may  
be useful beyond my own mucking around with data integration.

You can see the list of feeds at http://biogid.info/rss

At present they include a ZooBank feed (listing latest items added  
there) and feeds for each plant family in IPNI (listing plant names  
added in the last 30 days) You can view the feeds in a feed reader, or  
in most modern web browsers. Where possible I include links to digital  
literature (e.g., through DOIs), but this is not easy (see my  
obligatory rant http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2009/05/nomenclators-digitised-literature-fail.html 
  ).

I hope to add some more feeds in the coming weeks.

Regards

Rod



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