gti_abctaxa - Descriptions, classifications and keys made easyNowadays, several software packages exist to make traditional description and key building easier.2014-11-26T17:03:45Ztag:www.abctaxa.be,2014-11-26:/toolkit/tools-publish/descriptions-classifications-and-keys-made-easyhttp://www.abctaxa.be/misc_/CHM2/Site.gifNFP-GTIgti_abctaxaThe DELTA format (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)tag:www.abctaxa.be,2011-10-10:/toolkit/tools-publish/descriptions-classifications-and-keys-made-easy/delta-format-description-language-taxonomy2011-10-10T11:03:49ZhdekoeijerYves SamynThe DELTA format (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) is a flexible method for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. DELTA-format data can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, cladistic or phenetic classifications, and information-retrieval systems.Lucidtag:www.abctaxa.be,2011-10-10:/toolkit/tools-publish/descriptions-classifications-and-keys-made-easy/lucid2011-10-10T11:03:49ZhdekoeijerYves SamynWelcome to Lucidcentral, home of the Lucid family of software. Lucid is a flexible and powerful knowledge management tool that helps users make an identification or diagnosis. 3I (Internet-accessible Interactive Identification) tag:www.abctaxa.be,2011-10-10:/toolkit/tools-publish/descriptions-classifications-and-keys-made-easy/3i-internet-accessible-interactive-identification2011-10-10T11:03:49ZhdekoeijerYves Samyn<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document" /><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11" /><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11" /><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Cysamyn%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p><strong>3I</strong> (<strong>I</strong>nternet-accessible <strong>I</strong>nteractive <strong>I</strong>dentification) is a set of software tools for creating on-line identification keys, taxonomic databases, and virtual taxonomic revisions. By organizing illustrations and nomenclatural, morphological, bibliographical, and distributional data into a single database 3I also facilitates production of traditional, printed taxonomic papers and monographs.</p> Visual Keytag:www.abctaxa.be,2011-10-10:/toolkit/tools-publish/descriptions-classifications-and-keys-made-easy/visual-key2011-10-10T11:03:49ZhdekoeijerYves SamynVisual Key is a cross-platform, interactive, rich-graphic web application for identification of organisms. It has been written as an alternative to similar web and standalone platform-dependent <a href="http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/beemites/vk_bees/Comparison.htm">applications</a>. The major difference between such programs and Visual Key, that the latter uses character maps that allow acquiring and describing characters directly from the image of an organism. Since the goal of the project was to create a program that does not assume any previous knowledge of a user about data or principles of interactive idenifications, <a href="http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/beemites/vk_bees/Comparison.htm" target="_new">some other features</a> are not implemented.<br /><br /> Visual Key is a client-side program that uses objects and the <a href="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm" target="_new">language</a> already predefined in major browsers, and therefore it is small, relatively fast, and cross-platform. Once downloaded it will work even without internet connection.<br /><br /> The program handles data matrices in the <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11975335&dopt=Abstract" target="_new">Nexus format</a> and supports inapplicable, missing, multistate, and polymorphic characters. Visual Key can generate descriptions of given taxa at any time during identification.NaviKeytag:www.abctaxa.be,2011-10-10:/toolkit/tools-publish/descriptions-classifications-and-keys-made-easy/navikey2011-10-10T11:03:49ZhdekoeijerYves SamynNaviKey is a Java applet and application for accessing descriptive data coded in DELTA format