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Bob Corrigan commented on "iNaturalist on EOL":
@Jared Lamenzo: Hey Jared, welcome to EOL - what sort of project are you interested in?
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Marie Studer commented on "iNaturalist on EOL":
@Jared Lamenzo: Welcome Jared! Glad to see you here.
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Jared Lamenzo joined the community "iNaturalist on EOL".
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Tracy Barbaro added "Vashon Island Biodiversity" to the collection "iNaturalist Collections".
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Tanya Higgins commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Jennifer Hammock: Some of the Wiki entries do have brief sections on captive care, and I certainly wouldn't recommend adding anything terribly detailed, but I think it might be a nice blank to fill in. I have started a collection of species kept as exotic pets and will be doing what I can to fill in information (sooooo many of them are completely blank), just want to make sure the information I provide is worthy. :)
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Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Bart C.: We desperately need to refresh our content from BOLD but they are not responding and so far the process is manual. I will copy your comment here: http://eol.org/collections/26028/newsfeed so that they will see that users are asking.
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Bart C. commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Cyndy Parr: Did you find the problem? I still don't see the images of this provider.
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Marie Studer added "Urban Biodiversity, Museum of Science, Boston" to the collection "iNaturalist Collections".
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Jennifer Hammock commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
@Tanya Higgins: Hi, Tanya! We certainly don't have much of that kind of information- it hasn't been our emphasis so far. I think Captive care info could go comfortably in the Notes chapter. (You can add a subtitle to any text object, to clarify the topic.) Thoughts on this, anyone from the zoo, aquarist or horticultural communities?
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Tanya Higgins commented on "EOL Discussion Group":
Would it be appropriate to add a "Captive Care" section to those species often kept as exotic pets? Also, would it be appropriate to list the various "morphs" obtained through captive breeding for reptiles like ball pythons and leopard geckos? If so, how might that best be done?
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Özkan Yapar joined the community "iNaturalist on EOL".
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Özkan Yapar joined the community "EOL Staff".
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Jennifer Hammock added "Image of Simnia barbarensis and Octocorallia" to the collection "Mystery Associates".
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Roderic Page commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
@Cyndy Parr: This is what I was trying to build earlier today http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/using-zoomable-treemap-to-visualise.html. Partly inspired by a converstaion we had at the "birds of a feather" session at the first iEvoBio, when you talked about being able to visualise database coverage (at least, that's what I recall we talked about!).
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Roderic Page commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
@Patrick Leary: Great, thanks for this. I'll look at grabbing a copy of the same CoL version you have. It's a pity CoL have made a mess of their identifiers. The internal ones are unstable across versions, the LSIDs have version-specific suffixes and tend to break.
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Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
@Patrick Leary: We already have the GBIF ticket, Patrick, here https://jira.eol.org/browse/TAX-1198
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Patrick Leary commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
@Roderic Page: I just downloaded a version of the 2010 database provided in the second section on http://www.catalogueoflife.org/services/instructions.html, which is at http://4d4life.eu/downloads/CoLupdate_01062010_data.zip . The record_id 2322671 does refer to Papio in this version (with LSID urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:d7a1f584-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:col20100701), so EOL is representing the July 1st updated version of the 2010 Catalogue of Life. I'm not sure how many identifiers are different between the versions, but I tried Papio hamadryas: http://eol.org/api/search_by_provider/1.0/6873687.json?hierarchy_id=529 and found them to be consistent, but many higher taxa have different record_ids. I believe one problem we had with the CD version was there were no orders of Aves - a problem reflected in the published version: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2010/browse/tree/id/2243478. Exposing the GBIF classification and identifiers in the API is a good idea - I'll put in a ticket to capture it.
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Kelly O'Donnell commented on "EOL Learning and Education Community":
@Marie Studer: Thanks! Glad to be here!
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Roderic Page commented on "EOL API Discussion Group":
@Patrick Leary: Hi Patrick & Cyndy, thanks for chasing this up. Not sure how many versions of CoL exist for 2010, I'm using a copy that (I think) comes from the 2010 DVD (which has the same record_ids as the 2010 version that is online at http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2010).
The reason this became an issue is that I'm playing with a tool to visualise classifications and wanted a "simple" way to go from the CoL classification (which I'm displaying) to a taxon image from EOL. I'd assumed/hoped that I could do this via the EOL API , but because of the mismatch between CoL identifiers that I have and the ones in EOL I hit a brick wall and went back to simple text search (sigh).
While you're adding stuff, the GBIF classification would be a big help -- add that, expose it via the API, and clients can start to build maps.
