[mou] more on deep listing

[Jim Williams]

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From: "GREEN, Paul" <pgreen@audubon.org>
Date: September 20, 2005 1:50:38 PM CDT
To: <Conservationthroughbirding@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [Conservationthroughbirding] Deep Twitching
Reply-To: Conservationthroughbirding@yahoogroups.com

Dave's historic perspective on eBird is illuminating. Users might like 
to try the new version, eBird2, that has a host of new features as Rob 
described. It's much more engaging now, with all kinds of games to 
encourage birders to play while supplying data for conservation use.
In addition, there are a number of equivalents around the world that 
will do similar things to eBird. You can find those at the BirdLife 
International site called www.worldbirds.org There's a world map to 
click on and it will take you to the equivalent software in the UK, 
Ireland, Denmark, Turkey and other places. If you click on the map for 
the US, Canada or Mexico it will take you to eBird (or aVer Aves). The 
vision is to "to create a network of Internet systems that provides a 
platform for the collection, storage and retrieval of bird observations 
worldwide". So Dave, you can enter your Kenya data to 
http://www.worldbirds.org/kenya/Main.php and your British sightings to 
http://www.bto.org/birdtrack/ if you have the time . . .   My 
understanding is that the tech guys at Cornell are working on providing 
a simple way to transfer data from personal list-keeping software into 
eBird so that all those data can be added to the central database. 
Sweet. The next challenge will be to get these systems to talk to each 
other seamlessly so that everyone can make use of the collective data 
set.

Paul Green
pgreen@audubon.org




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