Applications Based on Checklist Data
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Some applications that I think would be interesting:
- Given two locations ("here" and "there"), what birds can I see there that I cannot see here? What birds are rare here, but are more common there?
- What am I likely to see at a particular location? (Search by location, sorted by abundance for current season)
- What was less common last season that is more common this season? ie, what's new?
- What will be less common next season that is more common this season? ie, What things might I miss? (The last two queries help you find migrating species.)
- Where should I go birding today, and what will I see there? (Look for number of "interesting" species by location. Interesting may be defined as having species that are not found or are more comman than at other locations, or are not found other times of year.)
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Hi xtine. Cornell Lab of Ornithology is developing several tools to answer several of your questions based on eBird and any other data they can get their hands on. Check out this link. My hope is that Freebase will be useful for complementing the Avian Knowledge Network by providing summaries of datasets and research results.
Some of my types that may interest you include "Spatial database" and "Scholarly work - ecology". Eventually I would like "Spatial database" to map well with FGDC metadata standards but I haven't had the time to work on it yet. "Scholarly work - ecology" is the beginning of a Freebase version of my Litcentral project. For that one, I'm waiting for some closure on how citations will be stored in Freebase, which may be very soon.
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Thanks for the pointers. I'm aware of Cornell, eBird and their great work. Good luck with your projects!
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