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