University of Glasgow

Roderic Page

The rather frail nature of biodiversity services (some of the major
players have had service breaks in the last few weeks) has prompted me
to revisit Dave Vieglais\'s [BigDig](http://bigdig.ecoforge.net) and
extend it to other services, such as uBio, EOL, and TreeBASE, as well as
DSpace repositories and tools such as Connotea.  
  
The result is at
[http://bioguid.info/status/](http://bioguid.info/status). The idea is
to poll each service once an hour to see if it is online. Eventually I
hope to draw some graphs for each service, to get some idea of how
reliable it is.  
  
Much of my own work depends on using web sites and services, and I\'m
constantly frustrated when they go offline (some times for months at a
time).  
  
My aim is to be constructive. I well aware that reliability is not easy,
and some tools that I\'ve developed myself have disappeared. But I think
as a community we need to do a lot better if biodiversity informatics is
to deliver on its promise.  
  
The list of service is biased by what I use. I\'m also aware that some
of the DiGIR provider information is out of date (I basically lifted the
list from the BigDig, I\'ll try and edit this as time allows).  
  
Comments (and requests for adding services) are welcome. There is a
comment box at the [bottom of the web
page](http://bioguid.info/status/#bottom), which uses
[Disqus](http://disqus.com/), a very cool comment system that enables
you to keep track of your comments across multiple sites. It also
supports OpenID.


The rather frail nature of biodiversity services (some of the major players have had service breaks in the last few weeks) has prompted me to revisit Dave Vieglais's BigDig and extend it to other services, such as uBio, EOL, and TreeBASE, as well as DSpace repositories and tools such as Connotea. The result is at http://bioguid.info/status/. The idea is to poll each service once an hour to see if it is online.

Messaggi di Rogue Scholar

Biodiversity Service Status