Biodiversity Service & Application Tracker

Biodiverse v0.9 Wed, 09/23/2009 - 04:01

Biodiverse is a tool for the spatial analysis of diversity using indices based on taxonomic, phylogenetic and matrix-based (e.g. genetic distance) relationships, as well as related environmental and temporal variations. Biodiverse supports four processes: (1) linked visualisation of data distributions in geographic, taxonomic, phylogenetic and matrix spaces; (2) spatial moving window analyses including richness, endemism, phylogenetic diversity and beta diversity; (3) spatially constrained agglomerative cluster analyses; and (4) randomisations for hypothesis testing. Biodiverse is open-source and supports user developed extensions. It can be used both through a graphical user interface (GUI) and through user written scripts.

CiteULike Wed, 01/16/2008 - 16:00

CiteULike is a free service to help you to store, organise and share the scholarly papers you are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser so there's no need to install any software. Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer with an Internet connection.

MorphoBrowser Thu, 10/18/2007 - 13:12

The ‘MorphoBrowser’ database and interface is a 3D visualisation and searching tool for mammalian teeth, accessible over the web. It allows the user to ‘browse’ through the diverse range of tooth morphologies found in mammals, both extinct and extant. While browsing, the three-dimensional shape of the teeth can be viewed from any direction by rotating and scaling the tooth.

SYNTHESYS NAD: Providing itinerary related datasets and tools (for integration, visualisation and quality check) Fri, 10/19/2007 - 09:30

The funtion of this service is to detect itinerary patterns in georeferenced primary data presumably collected during a collecting event.

GPSBabel Thu, 10/18/2007 - 12:57

GPSBabel is a converter program aimed at GPS systems. It can convert files to and from a large number of free and proprietary formats, such as KML (Google Earth) , csv, GPX, ...

deegree - Free Software for Spatial Data Infrastructures vdeegree 2.1-pre (recommended) Mon, 11/24/2008 - 13:23

deegree is a Java Framework offering the main building blocks for Spatial Data Infrastructures. Its entire architecture is developed using standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

Quantum GIS Mon, 11/24/2008 - 13:24

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS lets you browse and create map data on your computer. It supports many common spatial data formats (e.g. ESRI ShapeFile, geotiff). QGIS supports plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost (download here). We welcome contributions from our user community in the form of code contributions, bug fixes, bug reports, contributed documentation, advocacy and supporting other users on our mailing lists and forums. Financial contributions are also welcome.

Drupal v5.1 Fri, 05/25/2007 - 11:14

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites.

Xper2 v2.0 Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:51

Xper2 is a flexible and powerful knowledge management tool that helps users make an identification or diagnosis. It is a complete system that can performs management of descriptive data (creation of knowledge databases), and offers many associated tools in order to analyse those descriptive data (control and prevent of inconsistencies, comparison and analysis of taxonomic descriptions, summary of the base). Xper2 has an Editor and a Player for creating and deploying identification keys (free acces keys).

NaviKey v5.0 Fri, 11/06/2009 - 12:51

NaviKey is a Java applet and application for accesssing descriptive data coded in DELTA format and has been implemented as:

• a Java applet providing the contents of DELTA files (see example with the DELTA sample data files)
• a stand-alone Java application for accessing DELTA files or PostgreSQL versions of DiversityDescriptions databases, respectively
• a module ("plug-in") of the Java-based Diversity Navigator database client for accessing DELTA files or PostgreSQL versions of DiversityDescriptions databases, respectively