Saturday, July 05, 2008
Agenames
Stumbled across the cool AgeNames service, described on the stratigraphy.net blog. Agenames takes some text and extracts stratigraphic terms from text. For example, it will extract geological time periods from text. It's a geological equivalent of uBio's taxonomic name extraction services. It would be fun to play with this as part of the iPhylo project.
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Thank you for the link! The status of agenames currently is: very alpha. Despite we could collect more than 40.000 names of stratigraphic units, the coverage of data is still incomplete. Coverage for USA, GB and Canada is most complete, but still there are some gaps... Also the parser is under development and needs some improvements..
We will try to provide some public REST interface soon which you could of course use for iphylo!
If you liked the Ageparser tool, you will probably also like the new Agesearch toy here:
http://agenames.stratigraphy.net/agesearch.php?query=fossil+ants
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