[Taxacom] Biodiversity Heritage Library timeline

[Geoff Read]

Hello Rod,

Relating to your comment below I found an immediate practical use for your
BHL timeline. I need to know which spelling - Rhynchonereella (correct) or
Rhynchonerella (wrong) authors used when they described a new species of
that alciopid genus. A quick looksee shows 'wrong' prevails strongly
during the period BHL covers. The ability to go directly to see each
occurrence in situ (when in the BHL archive and with a usable date) is
going to speed up such necessarily 'manual eyeballing' (!) verification or
context-checking of obscure literature enormously.  And testing two
spellings in one timeline would be one use I would have for displaying
multiple names.

Thanks. You've made my day.


Geoff

>>> On 10/2/2009 at  3:39 a.m., Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.