[Taxacom] Biodiversity Heritage Library timeline

[Roderic Page]

Dear Geoff,

Glad it was useful. I've also found the visualisation has been a  
useful way to find bugs in the date-parsing code. I'll have a play  
with the idea of having multiple timelines in one visualisation.

Regards

Rod

On 1 Oct 2009, at 21:31, Geoff Read wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>

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