Hackathon 2013/Pitches
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TW: TaxonWorks
- Getting data out as DwC-A
- Visualizing specimens or shapefiles
- Getting data in as DwC-A
- Operations on DwC-A in TW
- Define migration paths from mx, 3i, SpeciesFile and others
- GenBank integration
- Phylotastic integration
- Outgoing links to other resources
- Ruby ecoysystem for biodiversity: existing libraries into TW, TW code as libraries
- Species biological interactions
- Documenting other taxonomic schemas/workbenches
- Use cases for TW
- Linking between references and names
- NeXML parser for Ruby
- Export data into Excel (CSV/tab-delimited)
- Code architecture for TW
- Code quality
- Generic, general API
- Rules of zoological nomenclature as an ontology: Nomen ontology (OWL-based)
- Extend to ICNafp
- URIs for name classes globally usable by anybody
- What does TROPICOS do?
- Basic logon/users/projects (OAuth)
- Simple example GUI (specimen in field -> point in collection)
- Make it work on a smart phone
- Documenting TW: Rspec, Wiki (best practices)