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|valign="top"|http://www.effechecka.org/<br>https://github.com/jhpoelen/effechecka/wiki/About#introduction | |valign="top"|http://www.effechecka.org/<br>https://github.com/jhpoelen/effechecka/wiki/About#introduction | ||
|valign="top"|The purpose of Effechecka is to create, save, export and follow checklists given specific geospatial, taxonomic and trait constraints using data sources including, but not limited to, GBIF, iDigBio and EOL TraitBank. Example checklists include animals, insects, plants and fungi of McLaren Park in San Francisco, small birds and mammals of the San Francisco Bay Area and big sharks of the Gulf of Mexico. | |valign="top"|The purpose of Effechecka is to create, save, export and follow checklists given specific geospatial, taxonomic and trait constraints using data sources including, but not limited to, GBIF, iDigBio and EOL TraitBank. Example checklists include animals, insects, plants and fungi of McLaren Park in San Francisco, small birds and mammals of the San Francisco Bay Area and big sharks of the Gulf of Mexico. | ||
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|valign="top"|EMu<br>KE EMu | |||
|valign="top"|Electronic Museum | |||
|valign="top"|data management, software | |||
|valign="top"|http://www.kesoftware.com | |||
|valign="top"|This is a commercial software product provided by AXIELL (formerly KE Software) used by many biological collections. EMu, is a collections management system for all museums, from the small to the very large. Engineered to manage all types of collections, EMu is suited to: Cultural collections, Anthropology, Archaeology, Science and Technology; Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture and 3-dimensional objects, Decorative Art, Performing Art, Photography, Textiles and Digital Objects; Natural History collections, including Zoology, Earth Sciences, Palaeobiology, Botany, Horticulture and Physical Anthropology; and Special collections, Digital Assets, Historical Societies and Archives. | |||
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|valign="top"|EnviroAtlas | |valign="top"|EnviroAtlas | ||
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|valign="top"|http://tsusiatsoftware.net/jts/main.html<br> | |valign="top"|http://tsusiatsoftware.net/jts/main.html<br> | ||
|valign="top"|API for modelling and manipulating 2-dimensional linear geometry. It provides numerous geometric predicates and functions. JTS conforms to the Simple Features Specification for SQL published by the Open GIS Consortium. | |valign="top"|API for modelling and manipulating 2-dimensional linear geometry. It provides numerous geometric predicates and functions. JTS conforms to the Simple Features Specification for SQL published by the Open GIS Consortium. | ||
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|valign="top"|KML | |valign="top"|KML | ||
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|valign="top"|http://www.redmine.org/ | |valign="top"|http://www.redmine.org/ | ||
|valign="top"|Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. | |valign="top"|Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. | ||
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|valign="top"|ReFindit | |||
|valign="top"|ReFindit | |||
|valign="top"|API, literature, taxonomy | |||
|valign="top"|http://refindit.org/ | |||
|valign="top"|Representational state transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. The REST architectural style was developed in parallel with HTTP/1.1, based on the existing design of HTTP/1.0. The largest implementation of a system conforming to the REST architectural style is the World Wide Web. REST exemplifies how the Web's architecture emerged by characterizing and constraining the macro-interactions of the four components of the Web, namely origin servers, gateways, proxies, and clients, without imposing limitations on | |||
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|valign="top"|REST | |valign="top"|REST | ||