Development Blog

This website presents step-by-step developments in software, data, and documentation as we progress towards the end goal of a comprehensive informatics platform for the new Flora of Alaska. We will “live-blog” the process to share the decisions, discoveries (and mistakes!) so as to help anyone working on a similar proplem.

Please note: this website and all related resources for the project exist as a Github repo.

Blog entries

• 2018-08-17: 1. Project roadmap
• 2018-10-31: 2. Names, names, names!
• 2019-01-03: 3. Variations of a taxonomic name
• 2019-01-17: 4. Databasing name variations
• 2019-03-08: 5. Sharing phenotype data
• 2019-03-14: 6. A tool for phenotype data entry
• 2019-05-01: 7. A canonical names list
• 2020-11-04: 8. A taxon concept mapping tool
• 2020-12-15: 9. A guide to name usages
• 2021-04-01: 10. Digitizing specimen maps

Guest blogs

• 2021-07-14: Kimberly Cook: Confessions of a taxon concept mapper