iSpecies: iSpecies launched

Saturday, November 05, 2005

iSpecies is a very simple test of E O Wilson's idea of a web page for each species. The data displayed are generated "on the fly" by querying other data sources, such as NCBI, Yahoo Images, and Google Scholar. The site was announced on TAXACOM and the Taxonomic Databases Working Group - Structure of Descriptive Data lists on 2 November 2005. It was blogged by Leigh Dodds and Danny Ayers.

SMV said...: Dear Dr. Page,

What a great idea! Projects like this are what make the Internet the valuable resource it was meant to be.

Best,
Steve; November 05, 2005 3:50 pm
Dan Warren said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; November 06, 2005 9:41 pm
Dan Warren said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; November 06, 2005 9:44 pm
Dan Warren said...: I love it! I hope you don't mind, but I wrote a Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape plugin for it. You can find it by searching "iSpecies" at:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/; November 06, 2005 9:44 pm
Roderic Page said...: I don't mind at all! Thanks for doing this.; November 06, 2005 11:22 pm
Anonymous said...: seems to be down; April 21, 2006 6:19 pm
Roderic Page said...: Sadly yes. The server it runs on has been hacked, and it's going to take a few days to get it back up again.; April 21, 2006 10:33 pm