Biodiversity and computing and stuff

How the BBC makes great websites

2011-06-28T02:23:00.000-07:00

Beyond the Polar Bear

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An other brilliant account on how the BBC change the face of web site design.

The guys at Virtuoso offer a pre-packed BBC+Dbpedia download.

Biodiversity Informatics Hype Cycle 2011

2011-05-30T15:36:00.001-07:00

You can still find last year's here.

From looking at it now, I can now say, it was just really my hype cycle ...

Can you tell what's over the chasme yet ?

Mobile botany

2011-05-23T11:53:00.000-07:00

Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.

Cool infoviz for taxonomy/phylogeny

2011-05-23T11:52:00.000-07:00

The Voronoi treemap algorithm is an information visualization technique for displaying hierarchical data. Few real world examples of Voronoi treemaps exist, here is one on EOL data.

Visualizing Biodiversity with Voronoi Treemaps

Open data video

2011-04-21T11:19:00.001-07:00

#opendata from Open Knowledge Foundation on Vimeo.

EOL move to Semantics ?

2011-03-19T05:29:00.001-07:00

OBIS-SEAMAP is cool

2011-03-14T13:19:00.000-07:00

"Biogeographic Information System Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, is a spatially referenced online database, aggregating marine mammal, seabird and sea turtle data from across the globe. The collection can be searched and visualized through a set of advanced online mapping applications"

Very nice effort, is lets you generate graphs and maps and even download them to your hard drive.

Pocket eReleve Video

2011-03-07T09:22:00.000-08:00

Telabotanica CEL

2011-03-03T14:34:00.000-08:00

Telebotanica" Carnet en ligne" is an online observation data entry tool for the french botanical community.

Our friends at Telabotanica have just released a widget that small NGO can include in their sites and its kinda cool.

They seem to be having great success and data is growing fast.

Well done David / Tela ?

Is Microsoft is getting greener ?

2011-02-15T03:20:00.001-08:00

MS Techays Paris 2011 "Encoder la biodiversité" Natural Solutions

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My slide from Paris Techdays last week.

It seems that their is some real interest in MS for Green IT and IT for green ...

Only time will tell.

The loves data visualization

2011-01-23T03:53:00.000-08:00

In this TED talk, David McCandless shares why he loves data visualization, and how it can help us make sense of “information glut.”

GIS and Mapping with Drupal

2011-01-12T06:37:00.000-08:00

Drupal is getting really powerfull, no doupt.

Biodiversity Informatics on the Semantic Web

2010-12-13T22:07:00.000-08:00

Pete DeVries's great introduction to his work and the lod cloud for biodiversity ...

Biodiversity Informatics on the Semantic Web

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Style your map

2010-12-13T05:48:00.000-08:00

Cloudmade is a really inovative company prodiving services around Opens Street Map. Alltought there buiness model is not very clear they provide an impressive set of free tools.

Open data hackathon

2010-11-23T02:46:00.000-08:00

Open data hackathon is happening Dec 4th in Natural Solutions
68 rue sainte Marseille.

To find an open data hackathon in a city near your, add your name and/or offer to help organize one, check out the City Events page.

SPARQL + BBC Ontology + MS Pivot

2010-11-19T08:31:00.000-08:00

A pretty cool semantic mashup from the guys at virtuoso ...

Marine Conservation Zone

2010-11-09T05:27:00.000-08:00

"The Marine Conservation Zone Project is a partnership project working with people who use the sea for their livelihood or leisure to identify Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs)."

An other neomapping croudsourcing biodivesity data project. With a Open Street Map background.

"Through this map you can input information on how and where you use the sea that will be used to help plan for Marine Conservation Zones"

Europe: EU Map-services is cool

2010-10-27T08:48:00.000-07:00

The EU Public Map-services covers thematic areas such as Air, Water, Biodiversity, Land and Noise. They support access of these service to as many possible ways EEA can handle.

EEA gives anybody the rights to re-link these services into there own web-site or portals.

This Silverlight/BingMap effort is nice ...

So is Natura 2000 (Flex/ESRI) viewer.

They also have plenty more in WMS/WFS services: eea.europa.eu/code/gis

Cool vid on Web 3.0

2010-10-18T14:43:00.000-07:00

Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

TDWG Bioblitz

2010-09-29T14:03:00.001-07:00

Around 100 obs so far ...

Biodiversity Informatics is on fire

2010-09-27T12:10:00.001-07:00

Biodiversity Informatics is on fire at TDWG 2010

Free and Open Source Software will change the world

2010-09-18T03:35:00.001-07:00

I really liked Schuyler Erle "How Crowdsourcing Changed Disaster Relief Forever." very inspiring ...

Ns foss4 g

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My Slide from foss4G, we had a great week in Barcelona with a lot learnt on the Open Source W*S standard ...

The Real Life Social Network v2

2010-07-26T07:47:00.001-07:00

According to Google we can only stay up-to-date with 150 people .. who are the other 350 FB friends again ?

The Real Life Social Network v2

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Now apply this to Biodiversity Informatics:
Strong ties: People you know and trust on Taxonomy and observation data
Weak ties: People who's data you might use (if they agreed on giving it to you)
Temporal ties: The rest of the world (maybe 95% of Gbif data ?)

That could be the reason why my naturalist friend still think that what we do is useless ...

Manyeyes for Biodiversity datasets

2010-07-13T12:37:00.000-07:00

IBM ManyEyes let you play around datasets.
There are many graphical display to play with:

Just to name a few:

Scatterplot

Matrix Chart

Bubble Chart

Treemap

Treemap for Comparisons

Word Tree

Tag Cloud

Phrase Net

Word Cloud Generator

App Inventor in Action

2010-07-12T15:05:00.000-07:00

Google is lauching a Wysiwyg tool for Android nolifes ...
This thing could be major game changing, and realy hit Steve in the ...

GapMinder is cool

2010-07-08T03:15:00.000-07:00

Gapminder World shows the world’s most important trends.
Gapminder is an FLEX/AIR information visualization package that let you build interactive graphs base on open data.

You can download it for free at gapminder.org
Here, its creator, Hans Rosling gives a great talk at TED about how he turns dataset into wisdom and knowledge.

I am sorry (Greenpeace) ...

2010-07-05T12:10:00.001-07:00

Just brilliant !

Word clouds are cute ...

2010-06-30T00:57:00.000-07:00

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. A nice IBM project gone public ...

MS Pivot for biodiversity data exploration?

2010-06-23T14:22:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Pivot is out and its cool ...
What we have in Biodiverstiy informatics is essentially three dimentions:

Time
Space
Species Biology

For space we have maps, where you can zoom in, and zoom out, for time we have controls that let you drill into month and weeks and days, but for biology, its a little more complicated.

Population trends of By IUCN status // Not nice

Biodiversity Informatics Art

2010-06-09T13:21:00.001-07:00

Biodiversity from roberta ramalho on Vimeo.

Very nicely done ..

arty surface computing

2010-06-09T10:50:00.001-07:00

Augmented Shadow_document from Joon Y Moon on Vimeo.

Microsoft's Future Vision Series - Microsoft's 2019 Future Vision Montag...

2010-06-08T11:05:00.000-07:00

Open Data Kit (ODK)

2010-05-26T09:58:00.000-07:00

"Open Data Kit (ODK) is a suite of tools to help organizations collect, aggregate and visualize their data. Our goals are to make open-source and standards-based tools which are easy to try, easy to use, easy to modify and easy to scale. To this end, we are proud members of the OpenMobile Consortium, the OpenRosa Consortium, and active participants in the JavaRosa project"

Its dynamic froms for android, its open source, and its base on xForms standard ... what else, well check it out here.

iphone vs android vs Windows mobile

2010-05-20T14:36:00.001-07:00

AdMob Mobile Metrics Report - March 2010

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Mountain Biodiversity Portal

2010-05-15T12:05:00.000-07:00

Mountain Biodiversity Portal from vizzuality on Vimeo.

Really great usage of Google Earth

2010-05-09T07:18:00.000-07:00

Google have launched an Outreach program that can help you use google earth in your programs.

* Annotate Google Earth

* Add photos & image overlays

* Add views & perspectives

* Create a narrated tour

Find out how to get free Google earth Pro Licences here.

Cool google earth KMZ demo

2010-04-20T10:42:00.001-07:00

Disappearing Forests of the World...

International Flights Animation (James Stafford)

World Population Animation (Jeremy Jackson)

World Population Animation, to combine to World Enery Consumtion very nice ... plenty more on Google Earth files

Actualy you can play with GBIF Occurence and density Rest services (http://data.gbif.org/tutorial/services)

French Data GBif : http://data.gbif.org/ws/rest/density/list?originisocountrycode=FR&format=kml

Titanium for mobile

2010-04-13T10:39:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Appcelerator from Appcelerator Video Channel on Vimeo.

Prety mutch the same thing as PhoneGap ...

Its open source and you can find it here ...

101: Welcome To Titanium! from Appcelerator Video Channel on Vimeo.

BBC Ontology for Wildlife

2010-04-03T09:18:00.000-07:00

Apis And APIs a wildlife ontology

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I am soo jalous, a national TV station, I wonder what France 2 is doing in term of Ontoloy, and biodiversity ...

Isabella beautifull painting

2010-04-03T04:29:00.000-07:00

Some more of her amazing work here, Taxa series by Isabella Kirkland ...

PhoneGap

2010-03-31T10:17:00.000-07:00

Phonegap could be the end of my plateform war nightwares ...

"PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript.

If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you."

Pocket eRelevé, "Cultivons l'innovation ouverte en PACA!!"

2010-03-31T03:26:00.001-07:00

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Pocket eRelevé, "Cultivons l'innovation ouverte en PACA!!"

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Shameless self promotion

2010-03-26T11:46:00.000-07:00

I'll be talking at La criee in Marseille on the 30 th of march (CULTIVONS L'INNOVATION) about how to save the world with a pocket pc ...

GazoPa Bloom image search engine

2010-03-26T10:05:00.000-07:00

Image search has always been an area of active research; it seems that it could become mature enough in the near future to become very relevant to biodiversity informatics.

GazoPa is launching the Gazopa Bloom dedicated to blooming flowers, I am waiting for the my private beta.

Pierre Fabre

2010-03-18T05:11:00.000-07:00

The "Conservatoire botanique Pierre Fabre" has a very nice flash virual visit web site with a slightly dated but still very friendly interface.

Check it out here :

klorane.org

SPARQL Browser

2010-03-02T11:42:00.000-08:00

A realy cool SPARQL browser on dbpedia triplestore from Alistair Rutherford.

Right click to view/download the source code (This is a FlexBuilder3 project only).

Biodiversity Informatics Hype Cycle

2010-03-02T11:02:00.000-08:00

Basically EOL is going down, Linked Data, and Cloud computing up ...

If your don't know about hype cycles read this wonderfull book.

All feedback welcome ...

La montre Verte

2010-02-27T02:52:00.000-08:00

The Fing (Fondation Internet Nouvelle Generation) who was in NS last week to latke pictures of us, has created an intersting toy to monitor polulion with a wifi device ...

"The aim is to multiply by 1000 the number of environmental sensors in the city, while encouraging people’s implication in measuring environmental indices, thus associating them directly to building a sustainable city."

So you want a super rugged PDA ?

2010-02-25T06:44:00.001-08:00

Pictures from the office

2010-02-22T06:35:00.000-08:00

Last week a professional photographer and made us look great....

The shot are now online >> here

Please don't laught ...

Steve Ballmer speechless over windows phone

2010-02-15T10:34:00.000-08:00

It looks pretty good this time ...
windowsphone7series

And some more ...

2010-02-15T09:14:00.000-08:00

More from Natural Science Museum of Barcelona and bestiario.org a very nice treemap ...

I wonder if they used this code flex2treemap ...

Biodiversity Informatics Art

2010-02-13T05:45:00.000-08:00

Very nice interface created on top of the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona Data Base Darwin core dataset from Gbif.

Bestiario's interactive map allows users to drag and zoom, turn on or off geographical layers, click on an active 'square' to download all the registers located in the selected area. Circular frames show the detailed locations of individual finds. form the amazing infosthetics.com.

Indicia: Open source framework for observation data

2010-01-27T10:53:00.000-08:00

"Indicia is a toolkit that simplifies the construction of new websites which allow data entry, mapping and reporting of wildlife records. It’s not a finished online survey website – think of Indicia as a kit car as opposed to a manufactured car. You get the wheels, engine and all the important tricky bits ready-made, but you still have to assemble the parts." Indicia in google code

Very nive work indeed ...

RSPB: Bird identifier

2010-01-18T01:53:00.000-08:00

The RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) have a very nice bird identifier also available for mobile users.

Augmented Reality Electronic Field Guide

2010-01-15T08:54:00.000-08:00

Some very interserting reseach happening in Columbia University (http://graphics.cs.columbia.edu/projects/efg/swhite-3dui-2006.pdf)

A more detailed presentation can be found here:

Biodiversity Informatics: The term

2010-01-13T09:32:00.000-08:00

Here is a list of definition of the term "Biodiversity Informatics" found in the literature (compiled by Jim Edwards , EOL)

1. Whiting (1992)--merging of GIS, GPS, database management, environmental economics, museum catalogues

2. OECD Working Group (1999)--application of informatics to recorded and yet-to-be-discovered information specifically about biodiversity, and the linking of this information with genomic, geospatial and other biological and non-biological datasets

3. Berendsohn (2001)
• The application of IT tools and technology to biodiversity information, particularly at the organismic level.
• It thus deals with information capture, storage, provision, retrieval, and analysis, focused on individual organisms, populations, and taxa, and their interaction.
• It covers the information generated by the fields of systematics (including molecular systematics), evolutionary biology, population biology, behavioural sciences, and synecological fields ranging from population biology to parisitism and phytosociology.

4. Soberon and Peterson (2004)--application of information technologies to the management, algorithmic exploration, analysis and interpretation of primary data regarding life, particularly at the species level of organization

5. Heidorn (2007)--the study of data problems where information acquisition, analysis, sharing, and collaboration are required to answer broad questions about biodiversity

6. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania--the sharing of information in any format pertaining to the taxonomy,ecology, and gecology, and genetics of organisms and biological communities

Jim Edwards
The future of biodiversity informatics:
GBIF, the Encyclopedia of Life and beyond
Executive Director, EOL

I must say I really like "application of IT tools and technology to biodiversity information", simple and to the point

Autralian's birders are online

2010-01-13T08:01:00.000-08:00

As usual Autralians are ahead of us in biodiveristy informatics ...

This web site is a bit more techy oriented than the previously reviewed ornithobase from biolovision but is has a nice design.

Bonne année de la biodiversité

2010-01-11T09:14:00.001-08:00

French and Swiss ornithologists go online

2010-01-09T17:07:00.000-08:00

Ornithobase has been setup in a number of LPO (Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux) and it is a really great success.

The number of observations has been multiplied by ten in some area of france and switzerland.

Well done Geatan ...

Green IT / Greenwashing

2010-01-06T15:12:00.000-08:00

I posted this a while ago, but it is interesting to have a look at the evolution ...
You can find the full explanation here and an instructive faq.

The site greenwashingindex.com lets you browse through the best in greenwashing creativity.

And to compare it with what marketing says about it ...

Dell ...

IBM ...

HP ...

I am feeling a bit sick ...

Iphone app from cornwell

2009-12-15T04:50:00.000-08:00

Birdseye is the "Best invention for birding since binoculars!"
According to Kenn Kaufman

Google again

2009-12-14T05:53:00.000-08:00

A couple of cool ways to use that for naturalist ...

Rich imaging for biology

2009-11-23T12:37:00.000-08:00

Photosynth is a newish toy from MS that lets you trun around and zoom into your picture collection.

It analyzes pictures and generates a three-dimensional model of the photos. Pattern recognition components compare portions of images to create points, which are then compared to convert the image into a model. Microsoft Photosynth

To give you an idea of what could be done for you can have a look at some demo form Harvard college.

Google Swirl is Swirly

2009-11-18T09:41:00.000-08:00

Google's new toy is cool, got to integrate that in taxobrowser ...

My new words from TDWG 2009

2009-11-17T12:27:00.001-08:00

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

2009-11-16T07:50:00.000-08:00

Nice add campain from WWF ..

The Environment Ontology is on its way

2009-11-10T01:27:00.000-08:00

Approx 1200 terms :

* Environmental matter
* Environmental feature
* Biome
* Food

You can try it with Ontogrator (brr scarry name)

2010 International Year of Biodiversity

2009-11-09T14:02:00.000-08:00

Next year ...

Cybertracker Video

2009-11-02T01:00:00.001-08:00

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

2009-10-27T10:41:00.001-07:00

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

2009-10-26T08:38:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-21T09:53:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-20T10:59:00.000-07:00

Présentation Pocket Erelevé V1

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Sorry about the frenchness again ... but this one was for home

eReleve video (English version)

2009-10-12T06:35:00.000-07:00

We have posted a video presentation of eReleve, in english this time.

The sound is a bit too low, sorry about that.

TaxoBrowser Beta

2009-10-07T14:09:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-05T11:25:00.001-07:00

A bit of familly promotion here ...

I am kind of proud of my dad ...

Image relevance feeback

2009-09-28T12:45:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-21T00:38:00.000-07:00

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 ..

2009-08-25T06:23:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-29T00:32:00.000-07:00

Tdwg Ontology 03.Key

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Roger Hyam gives a very intersting overview of his work on PEPSI and the TDG ontology.

EDIT e-taxonomy

2009-07-27T07:57:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-20T23:45:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-08T02:34:00.001-07:00

The World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA) web site is online.

A very nice flex interface from the guys at Vizzuality.

Green IT

2009-07-07T06:46:00.000-07:00

Ecology 2.0

2009-06-12T06:34:00.000-07:00

Ecology 2.0

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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

2009-06-09T03:35:00.000-07:00

The best thing about eBiosphere-09 was probably this sighting.

Aix galericulata // Mandarin Duck // Canard mandarin

It seems that just like Rob said they don't seem to get it.
Maybe they should have made a user conference and a developer conference.

"In a field that calls itself "informatics" the big beasts probably had little idea what was going on. If we are going to exploit the tools the web provides, we need people who "get it", and I'm unconvinced that the big players in this area truly grasp the web (in all it's forms)." iPhylo // Rod Page

Wikipedia Thesaurus

2009-06-05T09:12:00.000-07:00

A really cool thesaurus visualization tool from wikipedia Labs.

"Wikipedia, a very large scale Web-based dictionary, is an invaluable Web corpus for knowledge extraction. "

"By analyzing 1.7 million concepts on Wikipedia, we constructed a very large scale association thesaurus which contains more than 78 million associations. The accuracy is better than other methods based on NLP because we avoided the NLP problems by link structure mining for Web-based dictionaries. Have fun. "

eReleve Video is online

2009-05-27T01:10:00.000-07:00

In french:

Sorry abut my French everyone ...

In english

e-Biosphere 09: The International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics

2009-05-25T03:20:00.000-07:00

I will be here e-biosphere09 , in London next week if anyone wants to have a chat.

10 Awesome Things I Remember About Computers

2009-05-05T08:10:00.000-07:00

Arrggg ...

Typing:

10 PRINT OLIVIER IS KING
20 GOTO 10
RUN

for the first time.
Or
Guru meditation codes on the amiga.

Its all on this blog: Scott Hanselman

Open Street Map against the rest of the world

2009-04-05T12:55:00.000-07:00

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

A really cool video of last year's OSM progress.

Maybe we as a community can create the open biodiversity map, just like they did for cycling. Anyone is interested ?

BBC Tree of life

2009-03-14T07:53:00.000-07:00

As part of their Darwin 200 celebration the BBC have created a wonderfull flash animation around a very fancy looking tree of life.

It let the user fly around the an animated phylogenic tree and get more details (Text, Picture and EOL link, wikipedia) about species they might be interested in.

I the last year I have reviewed a number of similar efforts:

Treebase (Rod page )

Taxo Tree (University of maryland)

Phylowidget (Gregory E. Jordan; William H. Piel)

Taxo browser (Natural Solutions)

The Youtube of ornithologist

2009-03-05T11:36:00.000-08:00

Nice design, lots of content and some amaizing video. No mapping involved here though.

The IBC is sponsored by the Handbook of the Birds of the World which covers all of the costs of designing and setting up the site including the dedicated server, high speed connection and the staff required for running the site.

Eye on Earth Water Watch

2009-02-18T11:14:00.000-08:00

An other great usage of web mapping applied to environemental data.

The European Environment Agency and Microsoft have teamed up to launch a new campaign to monitor the quality of bath water across Europe.

This one is based on Virtual earth obviously ;)

BBC great migration

2009-02-17T12:31:00.000-08:00

The BBC World on the move program is tracking birds and large mamals migration around the world with a really cool Google Map interface.

TDWG Are you involved

2008-12-15T05:03:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Naturegate

2008-12-03T03:06:00.000-08:00

A very beautiful online creation from Helsinki. It lets you identify species throught an online visual key, very cool !

Some amazing landscape panoramics of Finland in the summer, next holidays hopefully...

The real world of species

2008-11-24T09:49:00.000-08:00

Species At Risk 15501 * Animal and plant species at risk of extinction 2004

Information visualization technique that let you see the world from a different (real) angle.

Species Extinct 783 * Animal and plant species extinct 2004

Catalogue of Life as a treemap

2008-11-15T03:51:00.000-08:00

A really cool Treemap from the catalogue of life data.

It works, it's in HTML and its live ... more info here.