iSpot & EML project blog

This week has seen the addition of links to both EOL and the NBN in iSpot. These links have been added to all identifications that have a valid taxon name in the NBN species dictionary, the scientific name is given precedence but if the scientific name is invalid and there is a valid English name then that is used instead. At present these links are only created once the identification has been published but I feel these links may be a good aid prior to publishing an identification and so it may be a good idea to look into how best to let users use these resources separately from publishing identifications.

As well as these links being added some of the other things that we’ve also done are as follows:

• Rich has added more custom reports for use by the iSpot team including User statistics which has some interesting information
• The active S159 students now have a badge so they can spot each other on the site
• it’s now possible to view who’s agreed with an identification, this still needs a bit of work to get the popup using a fixed size box and then the use of a scroll bar but it’s usable for the time being
• many small improvements to both the look & feel and functionality spread throughout the site!!

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