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Here is a live demo of Pygmybrowse using the Catalogue of Life
classification of animals provided by GBIF. It\'s embedded in this post
in an

tag, so you can play with it. Just click on a node.  

  
Taxa in **bold** have ten or more children, the numbers of children are
displayed in parentheses \"()\". Each subtree is fetched on the fly from
GBIF.


Here is a live demo of Pygmybrowse using the Catalogue of Life classification of animals provided by GBIF.

Pygmybrowse GBIF classification

For the \"to do\" list, expand-ahead browsing looks like a useful
approach to build upon
[PygmyBrowse](http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2006/09/pygmybrowse.html) (see
my [live demo](http://linnaeus.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/pygmy/)). The
approach is described in \"Expand-Ahead: A Space-Filling Strategy for
Browsing Trees\" by McGuffin et al.
([doi:10.1109/INFOVIS.2004.21](http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INFOVIS.2004.21),
PDF also
[here](http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/~ravin/papers/infovis2004_expandahead.pdf)).  
  
There is a video on [Ravin Balakrishnan\'s
site](http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/~ravin/), which is an AVI file that I
haven\'t bee able to coerce my Mac into playing, hence I\'ve posted it
on YouTube.  
  


For the "to do" list, expand-ahead browsing looks like a useful approach to build upon PygmyBrowse (see my live demo). The approach is described in "Expand-Ahead: A Space-Filling Strategy for Browsing Trees" by McGuffin et al. (doi:10.1109/INFOVIS.2004.21, PDF also here).There is a video on Ravin Balakrishnan's site, which is an AVI file that I haven't bee able to coerce my Mac into playing, hence I've posted it on YouTube.

Rogue Scholar Beiträge

Pygmybrowse GBIF classification

Expand-Ahead: A Space-Filling Strategy for Browsing Trees