Features

• Browse species pages with images, textual data, distribution, common names, quantitative and qualitative information including references, nomenclature, synonymy, included taxa and so on.
• Data, structure, and presentation are held separately and pages are constructed on-the-fly. Alter species page structure across the whole revision online, add, remove, and re-order topics automatically.
• Edit almost all data online, with some taxonomic validation to prevent simple mistakes
• Raise and sink taxa, add new species and synonyms.
• Search all data types using free-text search including Boolean logic, phrases, fuzzy matching, including within textual descriptions
• Produce lists of authors, specimens, references, and generate summary statistics for different data types, including graphs.
• Annotate pages with threaded comments
• Create regional check lists to TDWG Level 1, 2, or 3 and search taxa by region.
• Create dynamic distribution maps on the fly.
• Include relevant data from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Genbank, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
• Upload large images and serve them in a variety of sizes, pan and scale within the page.
• Upload keys in lucid (3.3 & 3.4) and Xper 2 format. Also create dichotomous (polytomous) keys online.
• Upload phylogenetic trees in Newick, New Hampshire Extended, and Nexus format and display them using an integrated applett
• Exposes data using a variety of APIs including: LSID Resolution (Taxon Concepts and Descriptions), OpenUrl (images), JSON (most data types), OAI-PMH (taxon concepts), DarwinCore Archive format
• Fine grained versioning model preserving changes to pages over time, allowing previous versions of the site to be browsed, and linked to using a permanently-assigned HTTP URI / LSID.
• Online registration and group management, allowing administrators to restrict editing functionality to a subset of users.