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Species and computers, IV, information visualization, ecology, GIS ,Ecoinformatics, Biodiversity informatics, ecoinformatics etc
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Google Swirl is Swirly
Google's new toy is cool, got to integrate that in taxobrowser ...
My new words from TDWG 2009
A couple of news words I learnt last week in montpellier.
- Bioblitz: A super fast field study method
- Ecotron: A controlled environment facility
- iCinema: Interactive cinema research
How I am supposed to translate that into french ?
Green marketing
Nice add campain from WWF ..
The Environment Ontology is on its way
Approx 1200 terms :
* Environmental matter
* Environmental feature
* Biome
* Food
You can try it with Ontogrator (brr scarry name)
2010 International Year of Biodiversity
Next year ...
Cybertracker Video
Here is a small video of how the guys at Cybertracker use local bushmans for field study.
Tracking in the Cyber Age from CTA on Vimeo.
For similar software for adanced users download our Pocket PC eReleve
SCRUM video
A 10 mins vid on SCRUM. Nice and simple ...
Or even shorter ...
For the nerds who want more you can find it here (wikipedia) or here (agilesoftwaredevelopment.com).
Cyber Observation Station on google earth
A real cool video from the James Reserve Observing Systems.
Its a pitty the KML links don't seem to work anymore. they even have robo duck in the lake ... don't ask !
Google earth blog: Real-Time Sensor Net in Google Earth
Very large surface table
A very large iPhone can be seen here where people are interacting around phylogenic trees ...
The pdf is here for the nerds who wanna know more ...
There are also some very interesting mapping application that can be build with this kind of toys ...
How about zooming into biodiversity hot spots ?
There is very interesting historical perpective on the subject here and some guidelines here .
Pocket eReleve
Sorry about the frenchness again ... but this one was for home
eReleve video (English version)
We have posted a video presentation of eReleve, in english this time.
The sound is a bit too low, sorry about that.
TaxoBrowser Beta
Taxobrowser Beta is online...
Still gotta to include the pictures fro Flickr as it seems that they could be of better quality, and improve a couple of functionalities.
The older Rovellotti
A bit of familly promotion here ...
I am kind of proud of my dad ...
Image relevance feeback
One of the issues we are having with our Taxobrowser demo is the relevance of the Google image API to a Scientific name.
Google has created a cool game to try to improve their image tagging process:
the Google Imagelabeler
Javier (him again ;) ) has put a flex version of it dedicated to species data.
Javier if you are listening, how can we have access to the data you are collecting?
TDWG comes home
TDWG 2009 will be held in Montpellier, France from Monday November 9 until Friday November 13.
Register here: http://www.tdwg.org/conference2009/
We will be there as it is only an hour away, don't know yet it we will do a demo or a presentation. Please let us know if you want to meet the team.
Vizzuality again ..
Javier de la Torre at GeoWeb 2009 present his lastest work.
I am guetting a little bit jalous of these guys.
The entire presentation is on youtube.
TDWG Ontology Presentation
Roger Hyam gives a very intersting overview of his work on PEPSI and the TDG ontology.
EDIT e-taxonomy
For those of you wondering how to avoid getting lost in the EDIT maze, they have put out a cool flash interface to explain what they do.
Debt Metaphor
Ward Cunningham, the guy behind Wiki, XP and Agile methodology give a presentation about refactoring cost and payback.
It seems that with the biodiversity crisis we are facing, we should get a very big loan and start coding...
World database of protected areas - New Web Site
The World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA) web site is online.
A very nice flex interface from the guys at Vizzuality.
Green IT
Ecology 2.0
A short presentation I did this morning about how Biodiversity Informatics can help ecology move forward to a version 2.0 status …
The best thing about eBiosphere 09
The best thing about eBiosphere-09 was probably this sighting.
Aix galericulata // Mandarin Duck // Canard mandarin
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