I've created a short screencast showing some of the phylogenies in BioNames. If you want to see these for yourself here are the links: Ocypodinae (ghost and fiddler crabs) Osedax (bone worms) Agaonidae (fig wasps) BioNames and phylogenies from Roderic Page on Vimeo.

Here's a quick demo of a 2D large tree viewer that I'm working on. The aim is to provide a simple way to view and navigate very large trees (such as the NCBI classification) in a web browser using just HTML and Javascript. At the moment this is simply a viewer, but the goal is to add the ability to show "tracks" like a genome browser.

Yesterday I posted notes on Web Hooks and OpenURL. That post was written when I was already late (you know, when you say to yourself "yeah, I've got time, it'll just take 5 minutes to finish this..."). The Web Hooks + OpenURL project is still very much a work in progress, but I thought a screen cast would help explain why I think this is going to make my life a lot easier.

Continuing the Friday folly theme, below is a screencast of a linked data browser that uses the same ideas as last week's screencast, but uses a custom browser I've written to display the results in a more user-friendly way. Linking the data together from Roderic Page on Vimeo. The demo is live, you can view it at http://iphylo.org/~rpage/browser/www/uri/http://bioguid.info/doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001787.

Sadly I won't be at TDWG 2009, at least not in person. However, there is a session on wikis, which may contain this brief screencast of my iTaxon experiments. The screencast was made in haste, but tries to convey some of the ideas behind these experiments, especially the idea that by linking data together we can generate more interesting and rich views of objects such as scientific publications.