[Taxacom] Visualizing Biodiversity

[Olivier Rovellotti]

Hi 

If you provide a Api Json/XML I can play with your data ,and get the
taxobrowser working ....
inchallah

Cheers


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Objet : Re: [Taxacom] Visualizing Biodiversity

As a follow up, about this time last year I put together another
visualisation of EOL's tree, modelled on a iPhone display. Might be a useful
approach if space is an issue.

Another way to tackle the quest for a visualisation is to make the data
available via an API so programmers could play with it. For example, if you
could model it on EOL's API (but simplified to remove stuff that's unique to
EOL).

Basically, all you need is to be able to return the following information
for a node in your classification:

1. node id
2. node label (e.g., "Animalia")
3. total number terminal nodes (e.g., how many species) 4. list of immediate
child nodes (e.g., phyla if current node is a kingdom) by id, each with
information on 1-3 above

Technical digression: serve data in JSON format and support callback
parameters and developers will love you for it.

If you did this, then it would be straightforward for anyone with a
visualisation to play with the classification, but without needing a
complete copy of the classification on their own machines.



Regards

Rod

On 31 Aug 2011, at 05:08, <Tony.Rees at csiro.au> <Tony.Rees at csiro.au> wrote:

> Dear Taxacomers,
> 
> In my efforts to produce a listing of all genera I end up with, among
other things, summary data on higher levels of my taxonomic hierarchy plus
the number of child taxa each contains (current example by phylum:
http://www.marine.csiro.au/mirrorsearch/ir_search.list_phylum). I realise
that this tabular approach is pretty much as unexciting as it gets so was
wondering about an improved visual manner to present this type of
information, preferably in the form  of a navigable hierarchy as per the
present hyperlinks.
> 
> One example I have come across which seems really neat is Kris Urie's EOL
Tree Viewer (aka "VOLE" - Viewer of life on EOL), for example starting point
see http://kurie.github.com/EOL-tree-viewer/#COL, however I was wondering
whether taxacomers have more suggestions or personal favourites worth
looking at. Of course I would also have to work out how to load in my data,
but that's a detail maybe.
> 
> All suggestions / examples welcome (and may even be used on my site if I
can figure out how to implement one or more of them). (Also I have a feeling
that Rod Page may have some experience in this area). Of course it would
also be nice if someone could take this on as a pet project for free,
however I would never dream of asking such a thing (for comparison / light
relief see http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html).
> 
> Regards - Tony
> 
> Tony Rees
> Manager, Divisional Data Centre,
> CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tasmania 
> 7001, Australia
> Ph: 0362 325318 (Int: +61 362 325318)
> Fax: 0362 325000 (Int: +61 362 325000)
> e-mail: Tony.Rees at csiro.au
> Manager, OBIS Australia regional node, http://www.obis.org.au/ 
> Biodiversity informatics research activities: 
> http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/biodiversity.htm
> Personal info: 
> http://www.fishbase.org/collaborators/collaboratorsummary.cfm?id=1566
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