[Taxacom] Biodiversity Heritage Library sparklines

[Roderic Page]

I've added a new feature to the BHL Timeline demo mentioned earlier (http://bioguid.info/bhl 
  ). If you go to http://bioguid.info/bhl/compare.php and enter two  
names (must be in uBio) you can get "sparklines" showing the relative  
frequency of hits for those names in BHL. The example I use on my blog  
post http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2009/10/biodiversity-heritage-library.html 
  is the sperm whale, which has at least two well known synonyms,  
Physeter catodon and Physeter macrocephalus. The later was popular  
around 1850-1900, whereas P. catodon is most often found in the second  
half of the 20th century.

This tool is a quick hack, but I hope people on this list might have  
some fun with it.

Regards

Rod

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