e-Biosphere '09 Challenge

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Eduardo Dalcin, Biodiversity Informatician at Instituo de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, favorited this 6 months ago

Visualising biodiversity digitisation in real time Rod Page University of Glasgow
We are learning more about biodiversity every day…
gathering new data…
discovering new species…
publishing papers…
Some of this knowledge is being broadcast… … using RSS
We want RSS feeds that
- Have timestamps
- Are georeferenced
- Have taxonomic names as tags
like Geo RSS geotagged (latitude, longitude, woeid) taxonomic name (machine tags) timestamp
But what if no RSS?
We can make it ourselves http://bioguid.info/rss Secret sauce (= screen scraping) Web page RSS
Then add tags using services Georeferencing Taxonomic names
Now we have RSS…
But…
… is anybody listening?
Challenge: aggregate and display RSS Merge RSS feeds, add missing georeferencing and taxonomic names Display where, when, what
Which gives us…
http://bioguid.info/ebio09/www/3d Visualising biodiversity digitisation in real time