e-biosphere '09 challenge
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Description of my entry in the e-Biosphere '09 Challenge. See http://bioguid.info/ebio09/www/3d/TRANSCRIPT
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Visualising biodiversity digitisation in real time
Rod PageUniversity of Glasgow
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We are learning more about biodiversity every day…
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gathering new data…
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discovering new species…
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publishing papers…
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Some of this knowledge is being broadcast… …using RSS
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We want RSS feeds that
• Have timestamps
• Are georeferenced
• Have taxonomic names as tags
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Geo RSS
geotagged (latitude, longitude, woeid)
taxonomic name (machine tags)
timestamp
like
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But what if no RSS?
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We can make it ourselves
http://bioguid.info/rss
Secret sauce(= screen scraping)
Web page RSS
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Then add tags using services
Georeferencing
Taxonomic names
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Now we have RSS…
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But…
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…is anybody listening?15
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Challenge: aggregate and display RSS
Merge RSS feeds, add missing georeferencing and taxonomic names
Display where, when, what
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Which gives us…
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http://bioguid.info/ebio09/www/3d
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