Re: [inaturalist] Spider names

[Scott Loarie]

Hi Ken - yes, looks like this is still in CoL as <i>Misumenops schlingeri</i>.

iNat has curators who manually add species that aren't in Catalog of Life or uBio - I just did that for Mecaphesa schlingeri here: http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/311625-Mecaphesa-schlingeri

The site could definitely use more spider experts so let he...@inaturalist.org know if you want to get involved curating.

As for writing a script for pulling in the World Spider Catalog, thats also possible, but would be important to make sure AMNH is onboard and that it is available in a from that could be more easily parsed. If you want to to take the lead on investigating this that would be awesome.

-Scott

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, <kschn...@gmail.com> wrote:

The site is not finding a crab spider I've collected and identified, Mecaphesa schlingeri, even using the "external names providers".  This is a valid name from the World Spider Catalog (http://research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/catalog/INTRO1.html) - which is an essential and updated reference to spider species names from around the world - is it possible to access the names from the World Spider Catalog in iNaturalist?

Thanks!

Ken Schneider

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[Ken Schneider]

Hi Scott,

 

I emailed Norm Platnick about electronic access to the World Spider Catalog (WSC), as you suggested.  His response is below.  I'm a computer idiot, I'm afraid, so I don't really understand what's needed on their end or the iNat end for this to work.  It would be great if we could link to the spider names in the WSC, but if it's not possible, that's cool too.

 

Best wishes,

Ken

 

 

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Hi, Ken, at present the catalog is only available as html text.  There is a database version that is available on the website, but it includes only the data up through Version 8.5.  There is a more recent database conversion that extends to Version 11.0 of the text version, but it has not yet been made available on the web.  Cheers, Norm Platnick

Dr. Norman I. Platnick
Senior Scientist and
Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Emeritus of Spiders
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York NY 10024

phone:  212-769-5612
fax:    212-769-5277
email:  plat...@amnh.org

See the World Spider Catalog, version 13.5, at
http://research.amnh.org/iz/spiders/catalog/

See the goblin spider Planetary Biodiversity Inventory website, at http://research.amnh.org/oonopidae

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From: Ken R. Schneider [ksch...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 11:31 AM
To: Norm Platnick
Subject: Electronic access to World Spider Catalog?

Hi Dr. Platnick,
 
I'm an amateur arachnologist based in California and a volunteer "curator" for the website iNaturalist, a "citizen science" database of images of the natural world, world-wide (www.inaturalist.org).   Since your WSC is the best and most complete source for spider names, I'm wondering if you would be willing to make it available to us and if it is in a format that can be "parsed" electronically? 
 
Sincerely,
Ken Schneider
San Francisco, CA  

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Sorry all - I had meant to email Scott directly - didn't mean to spam the group with this.

K.

On Friday, May 17, 2013 10:50:23 AM UTC-7, Ken Schneider wrote:

Hi Scott,

 

I emailed Norm Platnick about electronic access to the World Spider Catalog (WSC), as you suggested.  His response is below.  I'm a computer idiot, I'm afraid, so I don't really understand what's needed on their end or the iNat end for this to work.  It would be great if we could link to the spider names in the WSC, but if it's not possible, that's cool too.

 

Best wishes,

Ken

 

 

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Hi, Ken, at present the catalog is only available as html text.  There is a database version that is available on the website, but it includes only the data up through Version 8.5.  There is a more recent database conversion that extends to Version 11.0 of the text version, but it has not yet been made available on the web.  Cheers, Norm Platnick

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