[Taxacom] Biodiversity Heritage Library timeline

[Roderic Page]

Dear Pete,

Displaying multiple names would be cool. Perhaps what would also be  
useful would be displaying a sparkline of how often a name is used  
over time (for example, it may show how one name gets replaced by  
another). I'm increasingly thinking that timelines of biodiversity  
information may be very useful tools for visualising how our knowledge  
has been acquired.

Regards

Rod

On 1 Oct 2009, at 15:13, Peter DeVries wrote:

> Cool!
>
> Here is something to think about.
>
> Let's say I am interested in the species currently known as  
> Ochlerotatus triseriatus / Aedes triseriatus.
>
> It was originally known under the name Culex triseriatus.
>
> What about something like
>
> http://bioguid.info/bhl/se/uniqueid
>
> That resolves to a timeline that contains all the publications for  
> that species?
>
> The publications under different names would be displayed as  
> different colors.
>
> - Pete
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk>  
> wrote:
> I've created a tool to display the contents of the Biodiversity
> Heritage Library for a given taxon name as a timeline. The tool is
> online at
>
> http://bioguid.info/bhl/
>
> If you type in a taxon name (one which exists in uBio as BHL uses that
> as its source of names) then you will see the items in BHL displayed
> as a timeline. Some examples to try are:
>
> http://bioguid.info/bhl/?name=Pediculus+humanus
>
> http://bioguid.info/bhl/?name=Rana+grahami
>
> http://bioguid.info/bhl/?name=Collocalia+linchi
>
> For background on the tool see http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2009/09/visualising-biodiversity-heritage.html
>  .
>
> The dates I've used to locate a reference on the timeline have been
> extracted from text strings of the sort "v. 10 (1921-24)", so there
> may be some errors in the dating. Feel free to bring any mistakes to
> my attention.
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
>
>
>
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Professor of Taxonomy
DEEB, FBLS
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

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