List of bird checklists
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Thought this resource might interest you: Bird Checklists of the United States. This is a federal government site with data in a standard format so it should be legal and relatively easy to import. I may be able to get the actual data behind that website pretty easily. Let me know if you want it.
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Oops. It may be tougher to get this data into Freebase than I thought. See this page regarding copyright.
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I believe that documents produced by agencies of the US government are in the public domain -- http://www.usgs.gov/laws/info_policies.html
The SF Bay NWR data came from that site, and was produced by the USFWS and I understand is in the public domain.
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see also: http://www.doi.gov/disclaimer.html
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I haven't checked to see if all of the checklists were published by the US government. I'll make a call next week when I'm back in the office to find out about getting the data.
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Just an update that I'm following up on a couple new leads next week.
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Heard back. Data is fine to import but needs to be scraped from the web pages. No tables exist outside of the html pages.
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Lovely.
I can help turn copied data from websites into tables (either word or excel...can maybe even use google docs to share easily). Have done that many times. Doing a spot check of the lists, it looks like they all follow the same format (and really, all in HTML??? craziness).
Those are a lot of lists, though! Where do you want to begin?
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Great! I'm especially interested in the Southeastern US and Appalachian mountains. xtine would probably prioritize the SF Bay area. I think this is a great application so whatever order you want is good for me. Thanks!
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I am writing a birdlisting web application and I would love to have a birdlist for each state in freebase. Has anything been done so far on the filtering of all this data? Willing to help.
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Evening has done quite a bit to pull the data from the USGS site into tables. You may want to ask this question in here too.
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I've got 25 lists into spreadsheet format, but we haven't gotten them into Freebase yet. If I can somehow get your email, I can give you permission to view the lists in Google Docs.
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