Deep Sea ID: creating an iPhone and iPad app for science
Adrian Glover
AQUID (Aquatic Invertebrates Division), Dep. of Life Sciences, NHM
Wednesday 19th June 11:00 Sir Neil Chalmers seminar room, Darwin Centre LG16 (below Attenborough studio)
Deep Sea ID is the first iOS (iPhone and iPad) app from the NHM science group, released in March this year. It is a field guide interface to the World Register of Deep-Sea Species (WoRDSS) that currently stores on your device (for offline access) the taxonomic information for over 20,000 deep sea species, over 350 high resolution photographs of deep-sea specimens as well as links to online taxonomic tools, sources and important references.In this talk and demo I will explain why we made this app, how we did it, the importance of open data and take you on a visual tour through some of the amazing creatures of the deep sea.
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Credit: Adrian Glover. http://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/index.php CC-BY-NC-SA