species web pages

[Felix Sperling]

Julia,

If you are looking for species pages with dynamic generation of dot
maps and histograms of seasonal occurrence based on specimen label
data, then check out http://www.entomology.ualberta.ca/

Go to "Browse the Collection" and check out the Lepidoptera,
especially butterflies or moths, for the most complete sets of pages.
We have about 1000 species pages for Alberta insects, of which about
500 are Lepidoptera. There is a brief textual description of
geographic range and other natural history features, since collected
specimens from collections can't tell the whole story. There are also
links to references in our university library, as well as a
hierarchical search, and search forms for specimen label data or in
species pages.

There are lots of compilations of species pages out there on the
internet, but what distinguishes our pages is the dynamic linkage
between specimen data and species pages.

Cheers,

Felix

Felix Sperling
Professor - Insect Systematics
Department of Biological Sciences
cw405 Biological Sciences Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta  T6G 2E9  Canada

fax:   780-492-9234
phone: 780-492-3991
email: felix.sperling at ualberta.ca
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/sperling/sperling.html


>greetings:
>
>the recent discussion and examples of online keys has been informative and
>it is exciting to see the good work devoted to this effort.  but
>it has made me wonder if anyone is also building software/tools for
>generating species web pages from existing data sources--with fields/links
>to label data, images, (of types and in native habitat), descriptions where
>possible, georefs, etc.  ?
>
>and could this software be generically applied to other taxa with a
>few tweaks?
>
>with regards,
>
>julia
>
>Julia Kirkland Berger
>Director Special Projects, ALL Species
>415-750-7243 phone
>415-750-7090 fax
>http://www.all-species.org
>
>Mail:
>ALL Species
>P.O. Box 29462
>San Francisco, CA 94129
>
>Deliveries:
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>San Francisco, CA 94118