Add a new comment
Newsfeed
-
Maria del Rosario Castañeda commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
@Jennifer Hammock: Hi Jen, I didn't receive a particularly large amount of emails, just three in the past two weeks!!
-
-
Jennifer Hammock commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
Anyone overwhelmed by a recent flood of email from EOL (actually, if you weren't, let me know. Something might be wrong.) The curator community isn't often quite so chatty, but that was a good demonstration of the new email defaults, which will now inform you of comments or activity in any EOL community you belong to, for instance this one, Rubenstein Fellows, and the EOL curators community. If you'd like to manage those settings, go into your EOL profile and under "edit my profile" select "notification settings". You can set different kinds of activity to different notification speeds- immediate email, daily digest, weekly digest, etc.
-
Jennifer Hammock commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
@Kelly O'Donnell: Rats, this explains some things. Stand by...
-
Kelly O'Donnell commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
@Jennifer Hammock: No LifeDesk messages in spam folders. I even tried a second time with a different email address, no luck.
-
Jennifer Hammock commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
@Kelly O'Donnell: Hey, Kelly, Seena- the LifeDesk mail isn't hiding in your spam filters, by any chance?
-
Seena Narayanan Karimbumkara commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
@Kelly O'Donnell: @Kelly & Jen.. Same problem for me. Did not get an e-mail response after creating LifeDesk.
-
Jennifer Hammock added "Kelly O'Donnell" as a manager of the community "Rubenstein Fellows".
-
Jennifer Hammock commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
@Kelly O'Donnell: Uh-oh; thanks for the report, Kelly! We're looking into it, hang in there...
-
Kelly O'Donnell commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
Hello fellow Fellows! My project starts up in a month and I'm going through some set up now. Has anyone had a problem with LifeDesk in the past few days? I haven't gotten an activation email or a response to a question. I even tried using the tell a friend fields to see if I would get any email and that didn't work either. I'm using Firefox and Safari. Has anyone else run into trouble?
-
Kelly O'Donnell joined the community "Rubenstein Fellows".
-
Jennifer Hammock commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
@Maria del Rosario Castañeda: Good question, Rosario! For now it's one species at a time only. Once we've seen how that goes we may experiment with more sweeping tools, but we need to be cautious with it- large changes could be produced very suddenly if the preference propagated automatically to all child taxa. For the moment at least you have made all the Anolis species in the TRD more easily findable and that is the important thing! If anyone has an opinion about this or any other feedback about this feature please share it here or in the EOL discussion group!
-
Maria del Rosario Castañeda commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
@Jennifer Hammock: Hi Jen, I had no trouble selecting my preferred classification, but a quick question, do I have to do it one species at the time? or is there a way to do it in bulk? I changed the classification for the entire genus (Anolis), but it didn't automatically applied to all the species within. Did I miss something?
-
Ximo Mengual commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
@Jennifer Hammock: Thanks Jen! I will keep that in mind and eventually upload it.
-
Jennifer Hammock commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
A nice piece on Stijn Cooleman's Lifedesk for those of you who read french or dutch
Thanks for the tip, Stijn! Don't be shy, everyone, about reporting publicity you receive in languages other than English. Our international audience would love to read about your adventures!
-
eoleducation commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
Hi EOL Fellows- some great opportunities through the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) can be found here: http://www.nescent.org/science/proposals.php
-
Jennifer Hammock commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
@Ximo Mengual: Hi, Ximo! You can make your LD classification available via this method: http://syrphidae.lifedesks.org/admin/classification/biological/export/share. Put the url to your exported classification as an additional resource in your Content Partner account and let me know when it's up. Note that this is a manual publication- you can update whenever you like (we suggest not more than quarterly) so we strongly advise you to put a version number or date in the title and citation. Eventually we'll replace this resource in your CP account with the Scratchpads equivalent, after you're migrated, but that won't be for a few quarters, I expect.
-
Ximo Mengual commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
Hi Jen, I have now selecte my preferred classification of the 2 options I had; the problem is that "my" classification" differs from ITIS or Catalogue of Life (basically because is more up-to-date). Can I use my classification? How?
-
Jennifer Hammock commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
(by the way, is anyone still waiting for their classification to be made available as a browsing hierarchy?)
-
Jennifer Hammock commented on "Rubenstein Fellows":
Big news, everyone! The curator tool for selecting the preferred classification on a taxon page has been launched. Katja has just finished heroically updating our documentation. Here's her summary and urls for the relevant docs:
Hello curators!
This morning, we released a new tool on EOL that lets full curators set the preferred classification for a given EOL taxon page. Please have a look at the Information for Curators page to learn more about this feature: http://eol.org/info/curation#classification
By setting the preferred classification in the Names tab, you can now control the browsing classification shown to EOL visitors in the Overview tab. Your selection will not only affect the classification browser, it will also determine what name is used for a given group at the top of the taxon page. For example, on the page for the Painted Lady butterfly, selecting the NCBI hierarchy will result in a Vanessa cardui page: http://eol.org/pages/156096/overview
While selecting the Catologue of Life hierarchy would result in a Cynthia cardui page: http://eol.org/pages/156096/names
In addition to our official browsing classifications, you can also select from the non-browsable hierarchies that we have extracted from the data files of other content partners, including Wikipedia and the EOL Flickr group. While some of these hierarchies will clearly be inappropriate, others will be very valuable, especially when a taxon is not yet represented in any of the official EOL browsing hierarchies. See for example the Cryptocephalus octoguttatus page: http://eol.org/pages/3282247/overview
Previously, this page was orphaned. There was no browsing hierarchy shown in the Overview tab, because none of our official classification providers has listed this species. However, by adding taxonomic tags for the genus, family, and order, Flickr contributors have provided us with a de facto hierarchy that curators can now select to connect this species to the rest of the tree of life in the EOL browsing structure.
Please check out the new interface and let us know what you think. We expect that there is room for improvements, but this first version should provide you with a powerful tool to improve EOL pages.
Best wishes, Katja
