[Taxacom] iSpecies

[John Grehan]

David raises the Achilles Heal of collection databases. Without digital
imagery of collection labels they have to be treated with caution
(especially if used in any kind of quantitative analysis). In my opinion
the best databases are those that include specimen images and labels
(assuming of course that there is no mix up). Nothing will be perfect. Even
specimens are sometimes mislabeled, or misidentified.

John Grehan

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:16 PM, David Campbell <pleuronaia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This sort of thing is good for finding what's out there, but what's out
> there may be garbage - how can we balance this with adequate attention to
> and support of the basic data generation and checking?  Too much
> digitization is "look, our whole collection is online" and no attention to
> "but 60% of the online data is flawed or worthless because the people
> entering the data didn't know anything about spotting errors and no one
> checked it".  (60% is based on the one case I know of when someone
> carefully examined a major collection digitization - as a curator, not
> getting any of the funds allocated to the digitization, and being
> admonished for holding up the release of the data.  No, it wasn't me doing
> that.)
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Roderic Page <Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > Some members of the list may recall a little tool I built a decade ago
> > called "iSpecies" which was a quick and dirty ate empty to build a web
> page
> > for any species automatically. Eventually I took it offline but now it's
> > back! You can try it at <http://ispecies.org> <http://ispecies.org> <
> > http://ispecies.org> <http://ispecies.org> <http://ispecies.org> <
> > http://ispecies.org> <http://ispecies.org> <http://ispecies.org> <
> > http://ispecies.org> <http://ispecies.org> <http://ispecies.org> <
> > http://ispecies.org> <http://ispecies.org> http://iSpecies<
> > http://ispecies.org>.org<http://ispecies.org> and for a live example try
> > http://ispecies.org/?q=Trogon
> >
> > This is not much more than a toy, but the new version shows a map (GBIF),
> > some pictures (EOL), references (CrossRef), and a phylogeny (Open Tree of
> > Life). Comments and suggestions welcome as always.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rod
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
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