News: Outreach
RNeotoma now available!
Simon Goring has developed an R package to use the new API tools to interface with the Neotoma Paleoecology Database directly from R. Great job by Simon! Check the package out here.
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Posted by Jessica Blois on 04/11
Pending Data Now Available
The new pending data repository provides access to data that have been sent to Neotoma but not yet incorporated into its relational database. Files here include new author submissions awaiting processing by Neotoma data stewards as well as miscellaneous datasets that do not yet fit into the Neotoma database structure.…
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Posted by Brian Bills on 10/06
Taxonomic Name Resolution and spellchecking for plant names
The Taxonomic Name Resolution Service (TNRS) is a new web application for checking spelling errors and currently accepted taxonomic plant names. It uses a fuzzy matching algorithm to find misspelled names. Lists of up to 5000 names can be submitted at a time by pasting the names into an online…
URL’s:
http://ohmsford.iplantc.org/tnrs-standalone/index.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110613/full/474263a.html
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Posted by Blake Ketchum on 06/20
Neotoma database highlighted in Trends in Ecology and Evolution
A recent paper by Fraser J. G. Mitchell entitled Exploring Vegetation in the Fourth Dimension (TREE, vol. 26, issue 1, January 2011) discusses pollen databases and the incorporation of the Global Pollen Database into Neotoma.
Read the article here:
Exploring Vegetation in the Fourth Dimension
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Posted by Blake Ketchum on 06/02
UK Study on Scientific Openness Announced
The Royal Society of the United Kingdom to conduct study on openness in science.
The study, which is particularly focused on data sharing, is seeking input from academia, business, and industry in a "call for evidence." See http://royalsociety.org/news/Royal-Society-launches-study-on-openness-in-science/ for details.
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Posted by Blake Ketchum on 05/25
Eos Meeting Report Published!
Neotoma held a 4-day conference in September at UW-Madison to launch the next development phase of Neotoma. 54 people from 10 different countries met to form working groups, discuss goals and priorities, learn about the progress of the database and website, and provide feedback about near and long-term database and…
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Posted by Blake Ketchum on 02/10
Tilia Training Workshops in UK and France, May 2011
9-11 May 2011, Liverpool, England 16-18 May, Aix-en-Provence, France The new all-Windows version of Tilia was released in January 2011. This version includes the spreadsheet and graphics in a single program and includes many new enhancements, such as a component for generating and viewing age models. The program can also…
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Posted by Blake Ketchum on 01/23
Strides towards browser compatability
Currently, we are confident that the first level of navigation on Neotoma Home, Work Groups, and News is functional in most all current browsers including Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, and Firefox. If you are having trouble on one of these pages with a relatively current browser install, please let me…
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Posted by Blake Ketchum on 01/23
