The problem of displaying large taxonomic classifications on a web page continues to be an on again-off again obsession. My latest experiment makes use of Nicolas Garcia Belmonte's wonderful JavaScript Infovis Toolkit (JIT), which provides implementations of classic visualisations such as treemaps, hyperbolic trees, and SpaceTrees. SpaceTrees were developed at Maryland's HCIL lab, and that lab has applied them to biodiversity informatics.

I've just discovered Nicolas Garcia Belmonte's JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT). Wow! This is very cool stuff (and no Flash). To quote from the web site:Nicolas also links to a talk by Tamara Munzner, which I've embedded below to remind myself to watch it.