Tdikow Diptera Linnaeus Ii Talk
Transcript of Tdikow Diptera Linnaeus Ii Talk
Publishing taxonomic revisions onlineusing Linnaeus II
Torsten Dikow
Biodiversity Synthesis CenterField Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA
Linnaeus II & ETI
» Expert Centre for Taxonomic Identification(Amsterdam)
» Dutch governemnt &UNESCO
» freely available software
» build taxonomic revisions,catalogue of species,identification keys etc.
» peer reviewed & publishon CD-ROM or online
http://www.eti.uva.nl/products/linnaeus.php
Linnaeus II
» Linnaeus II 2.6
» versions for Windows & Mac
» Navigator
Linnaeus II
» Species module
Linnaeus II
» Species module – multimedia
Linnaeus II
» Text Key module
» dichotomous key with photographs or illustrations
Linnaeus II
» IdentifyIt module
» matrix-based key
Linnaeus II
» MapIt module
Linnaeus II
» Literature module
» references linked to particular species
Linnaeus II
» Asilidae: Leptogastrinae
» Euscelida & Lasiocnemus
» http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/lasiocnemus.php
Linnaeus II – Pro
» free software
» publishable online & hosted by ETI
Linnaeus II – Con
» all photographs or illustrations only 241 x 281 pixels
» matrix-based keys not as sophisticated as Lucid
» not interactive and no export function
» not SDD (Structure of Descriptive Data) compliant
Questions & Discussion