The hierachy of names is tantamount to the very basic nature of systematics,
the hierarchy of life.
Part of one would look like:
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Mammales
Hominidae
Homo
sapiens
As Terry pointed out, having hierarchical facets would help because of
another characteristics in such hierarchies, that many parents have hundreds
of children, such as the genus Camponotus with 1096 species. Many of the
children, especially at the species level, are only described once, and
that's why those facets will only have count 1. Higher counts occur when
they have been redescribed. But they are nevertheless important, in fact
often the only trace in literature that such a species exists.
Thus, yes it would be interesting to have such a hierarchy...
Donat
of elements
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Subject: Re: new exibit on madagascar ants
Terry Catapano wrote:
> David,
>
> Thanks much for the advice. I assembled this exhibit rather quickly
> (one of Exhibit's great strengths, I believe) for demo/proof of
> concept purposes, but I do want to optimize it. With regard to the
> facets, it's I'll probably fold up the species in genera to reduce the
> number of topical facets. Is there anyway to make such a genus list
> expandable to list subordinate species when selecting a genus?
>
No, right now we don't support hierarchical facets. How badly do you
want that feature?
David
> Thanks again,
>
> Terry
>
> On Dec 4, 2007 9:17 AM, David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Donat,
>>
>> Thanks for sharing that with us! That's one of the more exotic topics
>> we've seen in exhibits so far :-)
>>
>> By the way, to speed up your exhibit, you might want to remove those
>> facets where the counts are mostly 1, such as the Taxa Described facet.
>> And for the timeline, it's probably not useful to color code by
>> ".label". Color coding by ".author" might be more informative.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>>
>> Donat Agosti wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Here our first go to create an exhibit based on the ant literature of
>>> Madagascar (http://plazi.org/?q=node/12). It is our testbed to explore
>>> extracting and making use of the published records of biological
systematics
>>> publications.
>>>
>>> The simile tools Terry Catapano is using are essentially to showcase the
>>> data we generate by ocr-ing, applying taxonx-schema to mark up the texts
to
>>> be able to extract individual descriptions of species. The entire system
is
>>> hosted on http://plazi.org, and has an underlying DSPace repository and
>>> search and retrieval server.
>>>
>>> So far, thanks to all who helped getting this rolling.
>>>
>>> Donat Agosti
>>>
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