[Taxacom] iSpecies

[JF Mate]

As far as I can tell it is a super aggregator. Just start your own
page (i.e. "Insects of NZ") and create, edit and manage the
information on all the species that you want. Tell Rod about it and,
if accepted as a trusted source, it will be reflected automatically on
the page. The solution to the dodgy data is generating more good data
(information over noise). You can do that.

Best

Jason

On 26 January 2016 at 21:26, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
> Rod,
>
> The only way that this sort of thing is ever going to get beyond the stage of "garbage in, garbage out" is by allowing free and unrestricted (but moderated in case of spam) annotation. So, for example, with my "obscure moth", I might add a short note saying "this is an Australian species which is introduced in N.Z., and the only records currently diplayed on the map are mine from around Auckland". I might also give a link to more and better information (e.g. http://naturewatch.org.nz/listed_taxa/5234742)
>
> Stephen
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Wed, 27/1/16, Roderic Page <Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [Taxacom] iSpecies
>  To: "Lyubomir Penev" <lyubo.penev at gmail.com>
>  Cc: "Taxa com" <Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
>  Received: Wednesday, 27 January, 2016, 3:16 AM
>
>  Hi Lyubo,
>
>  Yep, lots of ways to do this.
>  One thing I’d like to do (apart from ad more sources) is
>  integrate across the sources. rather than simply say
>  “CrossRef has this, and BHL has that, and Pubmed has
>  this” if they are the same papers, let’s group them
>  together.
>
>  But as I’ve
>  tried to make clear, this is really a toy to show the
>  absolute minimum that can be done. What I’m really after
>  is  more sophisticated ways to do this, iSpecies gives me a
>  baseline to compare against.
>
>  Regards
>
>  Rod
>
>
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>  On 26 Jan
>  2016, at 10:09, Lyubomir Penev <lyubo.penev at gmail.com<mailto:lyubo.penev at gmail.com>>
>  wrote:
>
>  Rod,
>
>  This is just to recall that
>  Pensoft Taxon Profile (PTP)  is doing very much the same
>  since 2010 for any taxon name of any rank mentioned in any
>  Pensoft journal (see example for, say, Trichoceridae<http://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=7610&display_type=element&element_type=7&element_id=0&element_name=Trichoceridae>).
>  At that time, the creation of the PTP was largely inspired
>  by uBio and iSpecies but it delivers through either APis or
>  name string search information associated with taxon names
>  from more than 20 trusted biodiversity resources, including:
>  GBIF, EOL, NCBI, BOLD, PubMedCentral, PubMed, CrossRef,
>  Google Scholar, BHL, ZooBank, IPNI, ION, Index Fungorum,
>  Wikipedia, Wikispecies, invasive,org, Tropicos, IUCN, and
>  some more.
>
>  A bit outdated
>  version of the tool is available also as standalone
>  application at: http://ptp.pensoft.eu<http://ptp.pensoft.eu/>.
>
>  Of course, we all know that
>  this kind of tools are largely dependent on the
>  providers' APIs and search interfaces and are especially
>  vulnerable to changes in them. Anyway, they are useful if
>  one wants to get quickly to the first-hand information on a
>  taxon name through the mentioned resources.
>
>  Regards,
>  Lyubo
>
>  On Tue,
>  Jan 26, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Roderic Page <Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk<mailto: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.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/><http://ispecies.org<http://ispecies.org/>>.org<http://ispecies.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
>
>
>
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