Fwd: tolweb2

[Sheldon McKay]

FYI

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From: <len...@email.arizona.edu>
Date: 2010/1/28
Subject: tolweb2
To: Sheldon McKay <mck...@cshl.edu>

Sheldon,

I wasn't aware of the tolweb2 effort (neither David or Katja mentioned it to
me).  But I was just looking at this page:

http://evoio.org/wiki/ToLWeb

If you want the number of Contributors and Pages that have been reviewed, those
stats are in their ZooTaxa paper:

"As of October 2007, there were about 540 registered scientific contributors
(those who have or will author content on the core branch and leaf pages) from
35 countries."

"In the current (October 2007), public ToL database, there are over 5000 branch
pages, and nearly 3000
leaf pages."

http://www.tnstate.edu/biology/chalktalk/2008%20files/katja%20Schulz/zt01668p040.pdf

I remember doing the queries for them to get these statistics.

Andy

{
   "author": "Andrew Lenards",
   "email": "len...@email.arizona.edu",
   "phone": "520-626-8848",
   "title": "Software Engineer",
   "project": "iPlant Collaborative",
   "website": "http://iplantcollaborative.org/",
   "dept": "Bio5 Institute",
   "school": "University of Arizona",
   "geo-loc": "Tucson, AZ, 85721"
}

[Rutger Vos]

Oh wow, Andy wasn't aware of this? If/when there's any refactoring of
ToL going to be happening he'll be the go-to guy.

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We can talk about this more later, but, yes, Andy Lenards, and his predecessor, Danny Mandel (who actually built the vast majority of ToLWeb code) will both need to be involved once we get down to nuts and bolts. I wasn't aware of ToLWeb 2.0 until relatively recently, and once I became aware I was too consumed by dealing with new things here in Oregon, and Andy is only on rare occasions involved with ToLWeb at this point, and so I hadn't got around to mentioning it to him.

David