Dear Morphometricians,
This is to announce the release of an updated version of the Digital Taxonomy
website, a resource for open source biodiversity informatics.
The new URL for the updated Digital Taxonomy website is:
http://digitaltaxonomy.infobio.net
Digital Taxonomy was born in January 1998 as an attempt to present a wide-
ranging resource of information for biodiversity data management on the World
Wide Web, and promote the effective use of computers for handling biological
sofware development projects. As the field of biodiversity informatics
continues to grow, keeping up with the number of available specialized
software tools has become almost impossible. Thus, in 2002 the original
Digital Taxonomy Website ceased to be updated, as it simply became
unmanageable.
Now it has been downsized and entirely re-built using the fine PHP-based
CMSimple content management system written by Peter Harteg (www.cmsimple.dk),
while retaining its familiar, fairly hadcrafted, look-and-feel. As a result of
this downsizing, only links to free software tools that include full source
code (in whatever programming language) will from now on be available on the
site, including some legacy code not found elsewhere. Links to documents and
data sources also remain available.
Digital Taxonomy intends to provide a range of links on software,
methodologies, standards, data sources, documents, and projects related to
biodiversity data management, covering identification software, taxonomic
databases, ecology, biogeography, morphometrics, and phylogenetic analysis
software, with emphasis on the exchange of free, open source scientific
software tools for biodiversity informatics.
Currently, Digital Taxonomy has links to over 200 open source biological
software related websites. The listing is split into sections covering DELTA
and identification systems, databases, ecology, biogeography, morphometrics,
paleontology, phylogenetics, statistics, interface libraries, programming
languages, and software archives. There is also a section providing links to
DELTA and morphometric datasets, as well as direct access to biodiversity-
specific (FishBase, GenBank, EMBL, LegumeWeb, etc.) While the main purpose of
these links is to provide the developers of biodiversity management software
with ready access to relevant sources of data to feed into their programs, for
testing and benchmarking, they can also be of value for all users of
biodiversity information.
Anyway, Digital Taxonomy intends to be not a mere collection of links, but a
place for the dissemination and exchange of useful tools both for the
developers of biodiversity software and the users of such software.
As the new version of the website is under construction, a few broken links
are still expected, but they will be gradually fixed.
Suggestions, criticisms, reports of broken links, and contributions are always
welcome.
Regards,
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+ - - - - - - - - - - - - Mauro J. Cavalcanti - - - - - - - - - - - - +
| Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia |
| Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| Quinta da Boa Vista, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BRASIL |
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| Web: http://maurobio.infobio.net |
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