Posts Tagged ‘TDWG’

What is a Darwin Core Archive and who uses it?

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

In our upcoming release of SilverCollection v1.1 we are moving to support the loading and sharing of Darwin Core Archives.  For those that are not familiar with this we have put together a short video explaining about what they are, who uses them, and how to build them.  Any questions please contact us. Enjoy!

TDWG 2009 Summary

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

After a wonderful week in Montpellier, France and listening to some very interesting talks it’s time to get back to the daily grind and continue our developments. Before we do, I wanted to recap on some of the activities SilverBiology was involved in.

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Fun with LSID’s and IE8’s new Activities

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The first beta release of IE8 is out and we wanted to see what new tools could be achieved for Biodiversity Informatics.

We decided to try out the new IE8 Activities.  Activities are contextual services that provide quick access to external services from any webpage. In this case we decided to see how we could easily highlight a LSID and quickly get related information from its Authority.

Try our LSID Resolver Activity by visiting our LSID section.
http://lsid.silverbiology.com/

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