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species

2008-04-11T11:34:12Z

KierenPitts: /* Examples in the wild */

=Species=

:'''For the latest ideas, and to make comments, please see [[species-brainstorming]].'''

:'''Note: the original name of the proposed microformat, "species", is likely to change, probably to "biota" or "taxon". The former has been retained here, to avoid having to make many repetitive and perhaps redundant edits'''

:'''{{UpdateMarker}} The new [http://www.kaply.com/weblog/2007/02/16/operator-07a-is-available/ beta of Operator] detects ''Species''. [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/records/lists-2004uf.htm A test page is available]. Work on both continues!'''

==Introduction==

People use the vernacular AND taxonomic names of species in everyday speech and writing - just read or watch any populist gardening magazine or television programme.

*Consider this list: "'''Blackbird'''", "'''poodle'''", "'''T Rex'''", "'''potato'''", "'''French Marigold'''", "'''Wisteria'''", "'''E. Coli'''", "'''HIV'''", "'''Rubella'''" and "'''human being'''".

:"'''T Rex'''" is "''Tyrannosaurus rex''"; "'''E. Coli'''" is "''Escherichia coli''"; "'''HIV'''" is "''Human immunodeficiency virus''" and "'''Rubella'''" is "''Rubella virus''". All are the taxonomic (or scientific) names of unique species.

:"'''''Wisteria'''''" is a taxonomic genus.

:"'''Blackbird'''"; "'''poodle'''"; "'''potato'''"; "'''French Marigold'''" and "'''human being'''" (arguments about Neanderthals not withstanding) are vernacular (or common) names, but still refer to individual species.

*The scientific naming of organisms is a part of [http://www.calacademy.org/research/informatics/sblum/pub/biodiv_informatics.html biodiversity informatics] - "the application of information technology to the domain of biodiversity".

*The proposal aligns with [http://www.ted.com/tedprize/2007/wilson.cfm E.O Wilson's wish]:

<blockquote>...that we will work together to help create the key tool that we need to inspire preservation of Earth's biodiversity: the Encyclopedia of Life [...] an encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with an ever-evolving page for every species [and which]
does not duplicate existing efforts, but instead incorporates them through linking [with a] search technology that can aggregate existing biological information and make it easily accessible.</blockquote>

*As long ago as April 1998 on [http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/future/papers/rothenburg-19980412.html Robert Rothenburg's paper on Dictionaries] (''Note 4'') said:

<blockquote>What is missing [from HTML] is an element for marking up "proper names" (names of people, geographic locations, institutions, or even '''scientific names such as genus/species''').</blockquote>

:It's interesting that microformats have given us the first three missing items - and we're now debating the fourth!

==Proposal==
Imagine viewing a web page with a reference to a species - and being able to use an add-on to you browser to be taken directly to information about that species, on, say, Wikipedia, or Wikispecies, or Google Images, or another site, such as in an academic database, of your choosing.

Your software would automatically know to search site A if the scientific name referred to a moth, site B for a bird, and site C for a plant - and you could set your preferences as to which sites those were to be, and in which order two or more were to be searched (e.g. for moths, try [http://ukmoths.org.uk/ UK Moths] first, if not found try [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/lepindex/index.html The Global Lepidoptera Names Index]).

Or supposing someone writes a long, chronologically-ordered web page about all the birds, insects, mammals and plants they saw on a wildlife safari, with lots of prose description about the paces where they saw them and the people they were with, but you want to extract a list of species, sorted into alphabetical order within taxonomic class (birds first, then insects then...) or in taxonomic order.

Those are just two of the things a "species" microformat might do for you.

Your software, or a search engine, would be able to differentiate between a pages discussing HMS Beagle, the ship, and a Beagle dog; or birds that fly as opposed to a slang term for women.

Another benefit would be that user-agents could be instructed to treat text marked up in this way as not being in the base language of the document or element in which they occur - pronunciation should be as for Latin, they should not be translated (e.g. where a component word happens also to be a valid word in that language, such as the genus '''''Colon''''', '''''Circus''' cyaneus'', ''Hesperia '''comma''''', or anything with ''major'' or ''minor'' on an English-language page) and should not be spell-checked, or be spell-checked with a specialised dictionary (a need identified in this [http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2003-February/000590.html 2003 ietf-languages discussion of language values for taxonomic names]).

A further benefit the species microformat would bring is in the enriching and enhancement of species checklists, which are commonly found on the web. Broadly speaking, a species checklist is a list of taxa, usually for a particular group of similar organisms such as birds or vascular plants, found within a particular geographical region (a country, [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/records/lists.htm a region], a county, or a specific site, large or small). A typical example of a species checklist is the [http://www.coleopterist.org.uk/checklist.htm Checklist of Beetles of the British Isles] which, as the name suggests, lists beetles known to be found within the British Isles. A [http://www.google.com/search?q=species+checklist Google Search for "species checklist"] will reveal many other such examples. Species checklists are presented in a broadly consistent manner but are usually unable to be parsed and utilised by computers due to the lack of a common standard for marking them up in HTML. The species microformat would provide that common standard. A fully microformat enabled checklist would be parsable by computers and thus would provide developers with a means by which to aggregate and otherwise make use of this invaluable content beyond the current, rather limited, use of simple online viewing.

A specific example of checklist use might be in enabling [http://www.aditsite.co.uk/html/choosing_recording_software.html biological recording software] to parse and aggregate checklists in order to include them in their own species dictionaries. Typically there are waits of many months or even years while humans collate checklist changes manually for inclusion in recording software; automated checklist parsing and aggregation would greatly expedite and increase the efficiencies of this process.

==Existing taxonomies==
The proposal respects all existing biological taxonomies, and is not intended to change or supplant any of them - it is intended merely to provide webmasters (from personal hobby sites to major academic databases; from news outlets to retail organisations) with a method of either:

# marking-up a taxonomical name (or taxon-common name pair) in such a way that its components can be recognised by computers '''or'''
# marking up a common name, so as to associate with it a taxonomical name, in such a way that the latter's components can be recognised by computers.

==Embedding within other microformats==
The proposed [[plant]] microformat (with care regime, supplier, etc.), [[hlisting]], [[recipe]] or [[hReview]] (and possibly others) could contain a scientific name microformat, in the same way that an [[hCalendar]] can contain an [[hCard]].

See also: [[species-brainstorming#Future development]]

==References==

====General taxonomy====
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_classification Wikipedia: Scientific classification]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature Wikipedia: Binomial nomenclature]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomen Wikipedia: Binomen]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinomial_nomenclature Wikipedia: Trinomial nomenclature]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinomen Wikipedia: Trinomen]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxon Wikipedia: Taxon]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank_%28zoology%29 Wikipedia: Rank (zoology)]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank_%28botany%29 Wikipedia: Rank (botany)]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivars]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_%28biology%29 Wikipedia: Varieties]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvariety Wikipedia: Sub-varieties]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_%28botany%29 Wikipedia: forms]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym_%28taxonomy%29 Wikipedia: Synonyms]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_read_a_taxobox How to read a taxobox]

====Taxonomic codes====
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_Codes Wikipedia: Nomenclature Codes]
* [http://www.iczn.org/ http://www.iczn.org/ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature] (ICZN)
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature Wikipedia: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Commission_on_Zoological_Nomenclature Wikipedia: International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]
* [http://ibot.sav.sk/icbn/main.htm International Code of Botanical Nomenclature] (ICBN)
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Botanical_Nomenclature Wikipedia: International Code of Botanical Nomenclature]
* [http://www.the-icsp.org/ International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes] (ICSP)
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Nomenclature_of_Bacteria Wikipedia: International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria] (ICNB)
* [http://www.ictvonline.org/ International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_on_Taxonomy_of_Viruses Wikipedia: International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses]

====Other references====

*[http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantnaming.asp RHS Plant Finder: The naming of plants]
*[http://www.ishs.org/sci/icracpco.htm International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants]
*[http://www.tdwg.org/index.html Taxonomic Databases Working Group]
*[http://www.hortax.org.uk/ Hortax] - The Names of Garden Plants
*[http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm]
*[http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiSpecies]
*[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taxonomy Wiktionary: Taxonomy]
*[http://jbi.nhm.ku.edu/index.php/jbi/article/view/25 Biodiversity Informatics: Taxonomic names, metadata, and the Semantic Web]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_classification Wikipedia: Virus classification]

==Contributors & Supporters==
*[[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] (proponent)
*[[User:RogerHyam|Roger Hyam]] (interested party?)
*[[User:SXBRC|Charles Roper]], [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/ Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre] (proponent)
*[[User:SteveMcBill|Steve McWilliam]], [http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information System for the Cheshire region] (supporter)
*[[User:KierenPitts|Kieren Pitts]], [http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ ILRT - Institute for Learning and Research Technology] and the [http://www.amentsoc.org/ Amateur Entomologists' Society] (supporter)
*[[User:CyndyParr|Cyndy Parr]], [http://spire.umbc.edu Spire project] (interested party)
*[[User:AnimalDiversity|Animal Diversity Web]], [http://animaldiversity.org] (interested party)
*[[User:Christoph|Christoph Champ]], [http://www.christophchamp.com/] (supporter with a background in biochemistry, biophysics, and bioinformatics)
*[[User:David Stang|David Stang]], [http://ZipcodeZoo.com] (interested party)

==See also==
Here's some work-in-progress:
{{species}}
*[https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/169/ Biobar] - A customisable Firefox Extension providing a toolbar and content menu options for browsing biological data and databases, which shows what a user-agent could do, with data extracted from a species microformat

==Examples in the wild==

* An example use of the species microformat on the [http://www.amentsoc.org/insects/fact-files/orders/hymenoptera-parasitica.html Amateur Entomologists' Society Web site].
*Social network for gardeners marking up plant names with microformats [http://www.growsonyou.com/plant/Cosmos_bipinnatus Grows on You].
*A "proof-of-concept" example, with binomial and sub-family, but no other ranks, has been added to the Wikispecies entry for [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Glaucidium_sanchezi Glaucidium sanchezi]; and to its subfamily, [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Surniinae Surniinae]. See [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:Microformat Wikispecies:Microformat] for related discussion.
*The current "[[species-brainstorming#Straw man proposal|straw man]]" for the Species microformat has been deployed, in part, on Wikipedia. '''''All''''' Wikipedia articles with "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Taxobox taxoboxes]" (information panels on living things; and there are '''37,140''' as at the time of posting) now emit a species microformat. For example [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Tamandua Southern_Tamandua] (a species) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anteater Anteater] (a family of species).
* A [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/records/lists-2004uf.htm West Midland Bird Club test page] is available.

==Implementations==
*[https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/ Operator] has a user-script for parsing ''Species''.

===Implementations (pending)===
*[http://www.spacefornature.co.uk/biorec/taxoncheck.htm Taxon Checker] - a software tool which, given a common name, searches for the relevant taxonomic data and outputs the selected species' details as (among other options) an HTML fragment. It is intended to provide templates for outputting such fragments with "species" microformat markup, once this proposal is implemented.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Beastie_Bot Wikpedia's Beastie Bot] can be used to update the "taxoboxes" of articles about living things/

hcalendar-examples-in-wild

2008-04-11T11:30:25Z

KierenPitts: /* examples to act on */

<h1>hCalendar Examples in the wild</h1>
{{TOC-right}}
This page is an '''informative''' section of the [[hcalendar|hCalendar specification]].

The following sites have published events using [[hcalendar|hCalendar]], and thus are a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc.

If events on your site are marked up with hCalendar, feel free to add it to the top of this list. Please be sure to include at least one URL of a page on your site that includes actual [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] markup. Examples added without the URL of a page with hCalendar markup may be removed.

Want to get started with writing an [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] event? Use the [http://microformats.org/code/hcalendar/creator hCalendar creator] to write up an event and publish it, or follow the [[hcalendar-authoring|hCalendar authoring tips]] to add hCalendar markup to your page of upcoming events or events you mention in blog posts, wikis, etc.

Don't forget that you can add one of our [[buttons#hCalendar|buttons]] to the page, to indicate the presence of hCalendar microformats. For example: http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcalendar.png. If you can link it back to [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] (or even page on your website, about your use of the microformat), so much the better!

== examples to act on ==

===new examples===
<span id="New_Examples"></span>
Please add new examples to the '''top''' of this section.
* The [http://www.amentsoc.org/events/ Amateur Entomologists' Society] uses hCalendar in our calendar of events for entomologists or people with an interest in natural history.
* The [http://www.sandiegobrewersguild.org/calendar.php San Diego Brewers Guild] is using hCalendar for member brewers’ and pubs’ upcoming events.
* The [http://users.belgacom.net/gaudete Gregorian choir Gaudete] from Aalst (Belgium) uses hCalendar in their calendar of upcoming performances.
* [http://autopendium.com/events Classic Car Events] - Classic car events -- shows, auctions, race meetings -- from around the world marked up with hCalendar.
* [http://www.worldeventsguide.com World Events Guide] - Events occuring around the world marked up with hCalendar.
* [http://www.niallkennedy.com/about/ Niall Kennedy's Upcoming speeches] - hcalendar describing upcoming speeches occurs within the bounds of the parent hCard. Each vevent references said hCard using "include" method and attendee or organizer where appropriate. One vevent's description is a vcalendar itself, specifying multiple events (speeches) within the event and Niall's role in each, again with hCard include.
** The hcard include breaks one of the rules of the [[include-pattern]]: 'To prevent infinite loops, if a class="include" refers to itself or to an ancestor in the parse tree, then it is ignored and has no effect on the parser.'
* [http://competitiondiva.com/calendar.html Competition Diva's Event Calendar] is marked up with hCalendar.
* [http://www.bicyclepaper.com/calendar BicyclePaper Calendar] - Cycling event calendar marked up in hCalendar format
* [http://floatingsheep.com/userscripts/evite-hcalendar.user.js Evite hCalendar] - userscript to add hCalendar markup to eVite invitation pages
* [http://www.tripit.com/ TripIt] - uses hCalendar markup for every itinerary
* [http://www.leaguist.com Leaguist] - uses hCalendar markup sporting events
** Examples: http://www.leaguist.com/super-14-2008/games/, http://www.leaguist.com/super-14-2008/pick/1
* [http://www.areaguides.net areaguides.net] - uses hCalendar markup on all of our event pages
** Examples: http://newyorkny.areaguides.net/events.html, http://chicagoil.areaguides.net/events.html
* [http://www.keevu.com Keevu.com] - embeds hCalendar markup on all of it's events announcements
** Example here: [http://www.keevu.com/events Latest events]
* [http://www.auctionlink.com.au/ AuctionLink] uses hCalendar markup to show dates and times for [http://www.auctionlink.com.au/UpcomingAuctionSales Auction Sales in Australia]. (also uses hCard)
* [http://rosebleed.net/events/ Rosebleed] uses hCalendar markup on the Events calendar and individual Event pages.
* [http://www.hotmix.org/calendar/icalendar/icalagenda.php?Calendar=AnnMeetAgenda The National Asphalt Pavement Association] uses hCalendar on its meeting agenda pages. It features a selective iCalendar/CSV download option. The calendar data comes from an ASP web service on their exchange server. The hCalendar, iCalendar and CSV outputs are all generated with PHP.
* The [http://www.ox.ac.uk/ University of Oxford (UK)] has a locally produced institutional newsfeed system ([http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxitems/ OXITEMS]) where members of the University can create newsfeeds and add items to those newsfeeds. One of the possibilities is to use a newsfeed to represent a collection of events. This kind of newsfeed can be delivered in the Atom 1.0 notation where the content element of each entry element has [http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/running/events-demo/atom10.xml some hCalendar embedded in it]. It is also possible to obtain an event in iCalendar notation or to obtain all the events of the newsfeed [http://rss.oucs.ox.ac.uk/running/events-demo/getevents.ics in iCalendar notation]. For this, it uses [http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/ Brian Suda's X2V] to produce the iCalendar from Atom 1.0.
*Wikipedia-EN - [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**I have added hCalendar to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Space_mission Infobox Space mission] template, with dates entered using the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Start_date Start date] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:End_date end date] templates (to counter the lack of support for the <code>abbr</code> element). Example: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11 Apollo 11]. Work on improvements is continuing, prior to roll-out.
**Now used in templates for album (e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon The Dark Side of the Moon]), single (e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_to_Hold_Your_Hand I Want to Hold Your Hand]) and film (e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piano The Piano] release dates.
**Every day from 1 July 2006 onwards has its news events rolled into a single hCalendar item, via the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events current events portal]; earlier dates will be converted shortly.
**Issues: non-inclusive end date; no HH:MM:SS component as yet
* [http://my.opera.com/Kilimanjaro07/blog/ My Opera] uses hCalendar to mark-up Countdowns in blog/group sidebars.
* [http://www.nensa.net/sched&result/racing_index.php New England Nordic Ski Association's Calendar] marked up in hCalendar.
* [http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/events/ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Events section] supports hCalendar.
* [http://hope-international.com/fundraising/07_springdinners.html HOPE International's Spring Fundraising Dinner Events] marked up in hCalendar.
* [http://www.brewerdesigngroup.com/barcamp-hcalendar.html The schedule for BarCamp San Diego] marked up in hCalendar.
* [http://2007.xtech.org/public/schedule/full The schedule for XTech 2007] uses hCalendar.
* [http://www.seemsartless.com seemsArtless daily photoblog] - embeds hCalendar markup for each photo, with GEO markup for photos with significant geographic locations ( such as with [http://www.seemsartless.com/index.php?pic=348 this photo] )
* [http://www.ischool.washington.edu/ Information School of the University of Washington] - now embeds hCalendar markup on all of it's events
** Example here: [http://www.ischool.washington.edu/events/calendar.aspx Events Calendar]
* [http://playinghere.com/ Playing Here] uses hCalendar for live music shows in America, [http://playinghere.com/2007/07/07/CA/Los_Angeles/The_Hollywood_Bowl/ e.g.]
* [http://www.thsh.co.uk THSH] uses iCalendar for events at Town Hall Birmingham and Symphony Hall Birmingham
* [http://www.anfsusa.org/ America-Nepal Friendship Society] uses hCalendar for its program events
** Example here: [http://www.anfsusa.org/news/programs-projects/ ANFS: Programs & Projects]
* [http://www.friendsofthechildrenny.org/ Friends of the Children, New York] - uses hCalendar for upcoming fundraising events
** Example here: [http://www.friendsofthechildrenny.org/events.html Events]
* [http://www.depechemode.de www.depechemode.de] - uses hCalendar for events in the party guide
** Example here: [http://www.depechemode.de/parties/show-party.php?cat=1 Depeche Mode Parties]
* [http://last.fm last.fm] - uses hCalendar on all concert announcements.
** Example here: [http://www.last.fm/event/75615 Rise Against at Arena, Wien]
* [http://www.radiotimes.com Radio Times] - now mark up all their radio and TV listings.
**The hCals on listings are good, but on pages for individual programmes, they have no date/times - for instance [http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=56&programmeId=57876521&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details_fullpage.jsp]
** Would benefit from using [[include-pattern]] for channel name in main listings. This would facilitate the writing of parsers to set audio or video recording software. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://nederlandskamerkoor.nl Dutch Chamber Choir] uses hCalendar to notify visitors of their tour schedule.
* [http://cloudislands.com Cloud Islands] uses hCalendar to notify our customers about the conferences we'll be attending.
* [http://www.international.unt.edu UNT International] uses hCalendar for events (see esp. [http://www.international.unt.edu/offices/welcome/events/intlweek/calendar International Week 2007 Event Calendar])
* [http://www.rockisland.com/%7elopezmuseum/index.html The Lopez Island Historical Society and Museum] uses hCalendar for events
* [http://futureofwebapps.com/schedule.html Future of Web Apps London] lists its schedule in hcalendar.
* [http://leicesteryha.org.uk/cgi-bin/leoprog Leicester YHA Group's programme page] uses hCalendar and hCard to mark up forthcoming events and their organisers.
* [http://www.wadip.org.uk/pages/events.php Wadhurst Independent Photography events] lists forthcoming events in hCalendar format.
* [http://xlntads.com/about-xlntads/development-schedule.php XLNTads-development schedule] has their project development schedule timeline marked up in hcal (as well as contacts in hCard)
* [http://www.jaama.co.uk Jaama] have their event details as iCal downloads on their [http://www.jaama.co.uk/HS_Seminars.aspx workshops] page.
* [http://3amproductions.net 3AM Productions] has employee education ([http://3amproductions.net/jason.php Jason], [http://3amproductions.net/gilbert.php Gilbert]) marked up in hCalendar
* The [http://neatta.org New England Antique Tractor & Truck Association] (of all sites) has their 15 upcoming events marked up in hCalendar (as well as contacts in hCard and classifieds in hListing)
* [http://diarised.com Diarised] is a quick and simple online tool to help pick the best time for a meeting, uses hCalendar for meeting information.
* [http://etnies.com/ etnies.com] uses hCalendar on each sports home page ([http://etniesskate.com/ etniesskate.com]) and the [http://etnies.com/extra/calendar/ calendar of events] page.
* [http://www.mdas.org/ La maison des associations de Strasbourg] uses hCalendar on event pages.
* [http://nuggetshoops.com/schedule.php NuggetsHoops] , an NBA fansite, uses hCalendar for each remaining game in the current season.
* [http://wikevent.org WikEvent] aims to make it as easy as possible to put events on the web with semantic markup, including hCalendar for events and hCard for venues and artists.
* [http://fundyfilm.ca/calendar/ The Fundy Film Society] uses hCalendar for their calendar of upcoming film screenings.
* Psychology Press and Routledge's Behavioral Sciences' publishing division have implemented hCalendar on their conferences listings on 17 of their websites (example on the conference listing on their [http://www.clinicalpsychologyarena.com/resources/conferences.asp Clinical Psychology Arena])
* [http://jhtc.org Jewish High Tech Community] uses hCalendar on event pages.
*[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite?c=fabrics_content_c&cid=1162322807952&pagename=goretex_en_US%2Ffabrics_content_c%2FKnowWhatsInsideDetail Gore-Tex "Know What's Inside"] tour dates in hCalendar by [http://microformats.org/wiki/User:Csarven csarven]
* [http://finetoothcog.com/site/stolen_bikes Finetoothcog] uses hCalendar to markup when bikes are stolen.
* [https://www.urbanbody.com/information/contact-us Urban Body Men's Clothing] uses hCalendar for business hours and hCard for business locations.
* [http://www.infoiasi.ro The website of the Faculty of Computer Science], "A. I. Cuza" University Iaşi, Romania, uses hCalendar to markup events.
* [http://www.crosbyheritage.co.uk/events/ Colin Crosby Heritage Tours] uses hCalendar to markup events.
* [http://www.facebook.com Facebook] use hCalendar to markup events.
**'''Example needed''' (no such microformat on this [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6494697371 public event])
* [http://www.newbury-college.ac.uk/ Newbury College UK] uses a smattering of hCalendar and hCard
* [http://07.pagesd.info/ardeche/agenda.aspx 07.pagesd.info] uses hCalendar and hCard to mark up events of the Ardèche département in France.
* [http://climbtothestars.org Stephanie Booth] announced the [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/09/14/microformats-et-bloggy-friday-doctobre/ Bloggy Friday for October 2006] using hCalendar.
* The [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ West Midland Bird Club], in the English Midlands, uses hCal (with nested hCard) on its [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/ diary of birding events].
* [http://www.comtec-ars.com/press-releases/ ComTec audience response systems' press releases] use hCalendar as a method to organize by title and date.
* [http://webdirections.org/program/ The Web Directions Conference (Sydney Australia)] uses hCalendar for their program. It uses axis and headers for events in a table, and demonstrates how easy it is to make the whole thing downloadable using X2V.
* [http://www.thestreet.org.au/ The Street Theatre (Canberra, Australia)] now uses hCalendar for performances on its [http://www.thestreet.org.au/whats_on.htm What's On] page.
* [http://www.clacksweb.org.uk Clackmannanshire Council] uses hCalendar on its [http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/community/events/ event diary] listing pages and individual event pages.
* [http://www.markthisdate.com/ Calendarportal MarkThisDate.com] now uses hCalendar for all calendars. On our website visitors can add calendars and download calendars to Outlook, Lotus Notes, iCal, Netvibes, 30Boxes, Google Calendar and many others. Over 600 calendars were already uploaded.
* [http://mogue.jp/ mogue] uses hCalendar at [http://mogue.jp/event/1000/ event detail] pages.
* [http://www.gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2006/schedule.cfm 2006 Nobel Conference] uses hCalendar for the conference schedule
* [http://www.geekinthepark.co.uk Geek in the Park] uses hCalendar for the event information. -- by [[User:Trovster|trovster]]
* [http://www.besancon.fr/ official site of Besançon (France)] for its events
* [http://2006.dconstruct.org/schedule/ Conference schedule for d.Construct 2006] is published using hCalendar.
* [http://local.yahoo.com Yahoo Local] now supports hCalendar
* We used hcalendar for the [http://www.fuckparade.org/flyer/2006/ F’parade flyer 2006], a counter demonstration to the Love Parade in Berlin, alas the '''Firefox tails extension''' doesn't get a summary when it's an alt-text in an image.
* [http://www.harper-adams.ac.uk/press/events.cfm Harper Adams University College] uses hCalendar to mark up all University events on the Homepage and Events Calendar page.
* [http://www.capital.edu/ Capital University] uses hCalendar on multiple pages to provide feeds of events, relevant to page content
* [http://www.thesession.org/events/ The Session events] uses hCalendar to mark up concerts, festivals and workshops related to Irish traditional music.
* [http://rubyandrails.org/usergroups/newcastle ncl.rb] uses hCalendar to mark up new meetings.
* [http://www.webanalyticsassociation.org/en/calendarevents/search.asp Web Analytics Association] - hCalendar microformat is in place on all Tendenci sites on the calendar events search page and consolidated list page.
* [http://www.tendenci.com/en/calendarevents/search.asp Tendenci Calendar Events] with hCalendar
* [http://www.argolon.com/2006/04/17/web20-conference-in-dublin/ Web2.0 Conference in Dublin] hCalendar event
* [http://www.meetup.com/ Meetup.com] has marked up [http://www.meetup.com/cities/us/ny/new_york city event calendars], [http://photo.meetup.com/100/events/ group event lists], and [http://www.meetup.com/ signed-in homepages] with hCalendar.
* [http://ukwindsurfing.com/ ukwindsurfing.com] has marked upcoming events with hCalendar, and the [http://ukwindsurfing.com/events/ events page] in a table.
* [http://ocono.com/ ocono.com] has marked up it's "Upcoming Events" list with hCalendar.
* [http://www.austinbloggers.org/ Austin Bloggers] has marked up their "Upcoming Events" box with hCalendar ([http://www.austinbloggers.org/blog/a/001123.html announcement]).
* Ning's cloneable Group app has [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] markup on its [http://group.ning.com/index.php?controller=event&action=list event calendar] and [http://group.ning.com/index.php?controller=event&action=view&id=727220 event detail] pages.
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html Agenda: W3C Technical Plenary Day, March 1 2006] has [[hcard|hCard]] and [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] markup. ([http://www.w3.org/2006/03/01-TechPlenAgenda.html original here]).
* The National Arbor Day Foundation has started using hCalendars for their [http://arborday.org/programs/conferences/communityforestry/index.cfm upcoming] [http://arborday.org/programs/conferences/hazardtrees-treeplanting/ conferences].
* [http://www.stateofflux.com/ State of Flux street art site] has started adding events in hCalendar format
* The [http://barcamp.org/#BarCamps BarCamp home page lists upcoming BarCamps marked up with hCalendar] and even has a "Subscribe..." link.
* [http://www.w3.org/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html 2006 W3C Technical Plenary Week] has marked up the schedule and events for the week with hCalendar.
* [http://www.code4lib.org/2006/schedule code4lib Conference 2006 Schedule] is marked up with hCalendar as [http://www.code4lib.org/node/65 announced on their blog].
* [http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754 IEEE 754 Working Group] - trying hCalendar for upcoming meetings.
* [http://www.pehuen.org/node/494 Elecciones 2005 Chile] - the first spanish language hCalendar event found in the wild.
* [http://www.codewitch.org/it/2005/11/17/no-creative-commons-no-party/ Giocolando » No Creative Commons? No Party!] is marked up with hCalendar
* [http://www.cmprofessionals.org/events/calendar.html CM Pros Events Calendar] by Bob Doyle
* [http://www.midgard-project.org/community/events/ Midgard CMS Event calendar] - as [http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/new-event-calendar-for-midcom.html blogged by Henri Bergius]
* [http://www.iowamilitaryveteransband.com/schedule/ Iowa Military Veterans Band Schedule] - hCalendar markup [http://weblog.randomchaos.com/archive/2005/10/24/Microformats/ added by Scott Reynen]
* [http://www.funfairgames.net/weblog/posts/00000011.html Upcoming events on Jason A.R. Moody Amusements Weblog] posted by Jason Moody on 15 Oct 2005. [http://www.funfairgames.net/weblog/index.html His weblog] in general has hCalendar events posted inside the blog posts.
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2005/syndicate/tracks-sessions-schedule.html Syndicate - Tracks & Sessions]
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2005/web2/program.html Web 2.0 Conference schedule page marked up with hCalendar]
* [http://www.thisiscmon.com/ C'MON] is a rock band from Canada, and their [http://www.thisiscmon.com/shows/ tour dates] have been marked up by [http://www.d2digitalmedia.com/ Ray Dickman] with hCalendar.
* [http://ifreebusy.com/ ifreebusy.com] will display freebusy information using hCalendar. See this [http://ifreebusy.com/neiljensen/freebusy/ example].
* [http://we05.com/ Web Essentials 05] has marked up their [http://we05.com/program.cfm program schedule table with hCalendar], using the 'axis' and 'headers' attributes.
* [http://www.asdvbonaparte.nl/ ASDV Bonaparte] is a Dutch debating society. Their events calendar has been marked up with the hCalendar conventions.
* [http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog Suw Charman] has marked up [http://suw.org.uk/archives/category/events/ her events] with hCalendar.
* [http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/ Blog Business Summit] has published their [http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/details.htm event details] marked up with hCalendar.
* [http://eventful.com Eventful.com] publishes all events with hCalendar and venues with [[hcard|hCard]]. Took them only 15 minutes to implement both! Their Atom feeds also contain hCalendar/hCard.
* [http://upcoming.org Upcoming.org] publishes all events and lists of events with hCalendar. Took them only an hour to add hCalendar support to the site.
** The dtend values for events with no time specified (like [http://upcoming.org/event/110145/ | Burning Man] are not exclusive. This causes problems when sending the microformats info to places like Google. They do correct the dtend when exporting to Outlook though. They have been made aware of the problem.
* The [http://laughingsquid.com/squidlist/calendar/ Laughing Squid Calendar] events, [http://laughingsquid.com/squidlist/calendar/9949/2005/5/9 e.g. this party], now supports hCalendar.
* [http://paulschreiber.com/ Paul] Schreiber's [http://concerts.shrub.ca/ Sunnyvale House Concerts] site publishes hCalendar event information for upcoming concerts. In addition the [http://concerts.shrub.ca/shows Past Shows] page contains hCalendar events for all past concerts.
* [http://www.complexspiral.com/ Complex Spiral Consulting], both in the "Events" box on left side, and the separate [http://www.complexspiral.com/events/ Events page].
* [http://tantek.com/log Tantek's Thoughts], specifically the "Events" roll in the right-most column.
* [http://suda.co.uk/projects/holidays/ Lesser Known Holidays], a list of holidays on [http://suda.co.uk suda.co.uk] that can be imported via iCal and hCal so you can compare actual transformation versus intended.
* [http://norman.walsh.name/2005/itinerary/ Norm Walsh's travel schedule] use hCalendar as well as GRDDL.
* [http://www.policyawareweb.org/2005/ftf2/paw-mtg Policy Aware Web (PAW) Project Meeting] uses hCalendar to record date-related decisions, and uses a vtodo microformat to record action items.
* The [http://lufgi4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems] publishes it's [http://lufgi4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/cfps list of notable CfPs on dependability and security] with hCalendar-todo elements.
* The [http://laughingsquid.com/laughing-squid-10th-anniversary-party/ Laughing Squid 10th Anniversary Party] has an hcalendar page.
* SPRACI has hcalendar versions of its nightlife/clubbing/gigs/festivals listings for many cities worldwide - eg: [http://www.spraci.com/listhcalendar.php?parea=sydney&category=all Events in Sydney] (check the [http://www.spraci.com/api/ API] pages in the faq section of [http://www.spraci.com/ SPRACI] for more info about the area/city keywords and category tags to use to get data for your city/categories
* WWF-Australia events calendars: [http://wwf.org.au/act/events/ What's on], [http://wwf.org.au/act/volunteer/ Volunteer]
* [http://rubyholic.com rubyholic] uses hCalendar to publish calendars for ruby groups.
* [http://www.bath.ac.uk/whats-on/ University of Bath What's On] uses hCalendar on individual event pages
* The [http://www.kiez-ev.de/ Kiez] is a small cinema and has published its [http://www.kiez-ev.de/programm program] marked up with hCalendar

====World Cup Kick-off====
* [http://www.worldcupkickoff.com/ World Cup KickOff] where you can download and keep all the fixtures you are interested in so you will never miss a single game of the 2006 football World Cup!
** This link was on the [http://www.lifehacker.com/software/sports/world-cup-start-times-for-ical-etc-175393.php Lifehackers site] and made its way to the yahoo news site:

<blockquote>
Mon May 22, 4:00 PM ET
The World Cup, one of the world's most watched sporting events, is almost upon us. If you've ever tried to follow your favorite team through the Cup you know that it can sometimes be difficult to know when they're on. World Cup Kickoff can help.

World Cup KickOff is all you will ever need for knowing all the match details for the upcoming World Cup 2006. Whether you use your mobile phone, MS Outlook, Apple iCal or Mozilla Calendar, you can download and keep all the fixtures you are interested in so you will never miss a single game!

Next tip? We'll show you how to get up at 2 AM to watch your matches. ;0) Thanks to Tom for the tip!
</blockquote>

=== examples with some problems ===
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If you find a problem with any example in any other section, please move it here, and note the precise problem and cite the section of the [[hcalendar | hCalendar spec]] that appears to be violated. If the example that was moved here is yours, and you want to improve it, see the [[hcalendar-faq| hCalendar FAQ]], or raise any queries on [[hcalendar-issues| hCalendar issues]] or [[mailing-lists#microformats-discuss|the mailing list]], where people will be happy to help you.

* [http://www.tpexpress.co.uk/Liverpool08-Capital-of-Culture/ First TransPennine Express - Liverpool 08, Capital of Culture] - uses hCalendar markup for events.
**'''Suboptimal''', not using exclusive date end. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 12:25, 17 Feb 2008 (PST)
* [http://www.konplan.com konplan.com] - uses hCalendar markup in their event container
** Examples: http://www.konplan.com/public1/_EN/index.php
**'''Suboptimal''', has wrong values in <code>dtend</code>
*** Should be fixed. Can anyone check on it -- I'd like to move it back to examples above. --[[User:AndreasLappe|AndreasLappe]] 07:32, 23 Jan 2008 (PST)
**** Better, but the new end dates are not exclusive (this is a frequently-occurring problem, requiring a rethink of the way the microformat works). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:13, 23 Jan 2008 (PST)
***** Should be fixed too. Again, I'd appreciate comments... --[[User:AndreasLappe|AndreasLappe]] 05:22, 25 Jan 2008 (PST)
****** Do those events really run from midnight to midnight? [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 05:56, 25 Jan 2008 (PST)
******* They don't. They are all-day events. I was working with [http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/ietf-calsify/2005-September/000769.html] -- wrong? --[[User:AndreasLappe|AndreasLappe]] 06:08, 25 Jan 2008 (PST)
******** That's not usual practice (I'd say it gives a false level of precision), but should perhaps be raised at [[hcalendar-issues]] for clarification. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:47, 28 Jan 2008 (PST)
* [http://wiki-translation.com wiki-translation.com] - uses hCalendar markup for events.
**Built-in feature for [http://TikiWiki.org TikiWiki CMS/Groupware] 1.10
**'''Hidden''', data hidden using CSS. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 06:51, 15 Jan 2008 (PST)
***Should be fixed. Can anyone check on it? -- I'd like to move it back to examples above. --[[User:MarcLaporte|MarcLaporte]] 16:58, 4 Mar 2008 (PST)

* [http://konferenciakalauz.hu konferenciakalauz.hu] uses hCalendar for events (in Hungarian).
**'''Suboptimal''', not using exclusive date end. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:18, 24 Sep 2007 (PDT)
* [http://www.chronii.com/ chronii.com], a site for creating, searching, and cross-referencing timelines, presents events marked up in hCalendar.
**'''Suboptimal''', '''Hidden''': [http://www.chronii.com/e/line.jsp?ti=1&q=The+Internet] uses <code><nowiki><abbr class="dtstart" title="1991-01-01"></abbr> <abbr class="dtend" title="1992-01-01"></abbr></nowiki></code> for a whole-year date of "1991"
* [http://www.gretchenland.com Gretchen] has their show schedule marked up with hCalendar
** Example here: [http://www.gretchenland.com/shows Upcoming Concert Dates]
**Invalid: <code><nowiki><SPAN title="2007-04-21" class="dtstart">04.21.2007</SPAN></nowiki></code> [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:08, 20 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* I'd be happy if some future french Pinko-marketing meetings (CantineCamp) could require the use of hCalendar for listing some informal lunches in Paris. [http://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wikidev.cgi?FR/PinkoMarketing/CantineCampParis10 CantineCampParis10 is an example] to include a hCalendar + hCard markup on the wiki-page. When converting to vCard, "Mendès" accent is malformed in a french outlook 2003 "address book". I've looked UTF-8 example but could not find any way to correct. Any idea ? -- [[User:ChristopheDucamp|xtof]] 01:09, 26 Mar 2007 (PDT)
* [http://www.joomlamug.com Joomla! Melbourne User Group] uses hCalendar markup for listing of all events.
** No examples on cited page. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 15:06, 31 Jan 2007 (PST)
* [http://www.webfeet.org/events.html Webfeet events] includes hCalendar markup in its aggregated events lists.
** <s>Possibly a case where <nowiki><abbr></nowiki> won't work for dtstart/dtend as there are many events listed under a single date. [[User:Webf|Webf]] 15:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)</s>
**Malformed e.g <code><nowiki><span class="dtstart" title="20070120"></span></nowiki></code> [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
** Continue the discussion under [[hcalendar-issues|hCalendar Issues]] perhaps. [[User:Webf|Webf]] 22:25, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* [http://www.theatrestudies.llc.ed.ac.uk/ Theatre Studies: European Theatre] at the University of Edinburgh uses hCalendar to markup news and events on the index page.
**<s>Uses "display:none" on image. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 15:32, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)</s> Removed img tag from hCard
* [http://www.bokle.de/ s'Bokle] is a German music pub. Their events calendar has been marked up with hCalendar.
** improper use of rrule --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 16:04, 6 Jan 2006 (PST)
* [http://plan9.tryphon.org/nancy/list Plan9] - Uses hCalendar to mark up events !
** <s>dtstart/dtend are implemented on span element [[User:TomArmitage|Tom Armitage]] June 23, 2006</s> --[[User:Tim|Tim]] 13:34, 4 Mar 2007 (PST) Fixed now
* [http://www.socaltech.com socalTECH] is a news and information site. Their front page event listing is marked up with hCalendar.
** dtstart/dtend implemented on span element [[User:TomArmitage|Tom Armitage]] June 23, 2006
* [http://www.multipack.co.uk The Multipack] features a vevent for the next meeting information.
** dtstart/dtend are implemented on em element [[User:TomArmitage|Tom Armitage]] June 23, 2006
* [http://paulschreiber.com/ Paul] Schreiber's [http://iceoasis.shrub.ca/ unofficial schedule site] publishes hCalendar information for upcoming hockey games at [http://www.iceoasis.com/ Ice Oasis]
** dtstart/dtend are implemented on td element [[User:TomArmitage|Tom Armitage]] June 23, 2006

- whilst Tails parses the "title" attribute for dtstart/dtend on <em>any</em> element (does Tails still do this?), that is incorrect. The title attribute only provides semantics for the <code><nowiki><abbr></nowiki></code> element, while for elements in general like <code><nowiki><span></nowiki></code>, only the contents of the element are used. This is a simplification and see [[hcard-parsing|hCard parsing]] for details. Technorati Microformats Search only looks for the title attribute on <code><nowiki><abbr></nowiki></code> tags per the rules from [[hcard-parsing|hCard parsing]] which apply to [[hcalendar-parsing|hCalendar parsing]] as well.

=== reviewed examples ===
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If you have reviewed a New Example (and you are not the author of the example) and believe it to be valid, go ahead and move it here.
* ...

== grouped examples ==
=== listings of upcoming local events ===
* ...
=== archives of local event listings ===
==== Laughing Squid Calendar ====
* The [http://laughingsquid.com/squidlist/calendar/ Laughing Squid Calendar] events listings supported [[hcalendar|hCalendar]]
** [http://laughingsquid.com/squidlist/calendar/month/2003/2 2003 February] thru [http://laughingsquid.com/squidlist/calendar/month/2006/9 2006 September]

=== conference schedules ===
* [http://adactio.com/extras/schedules/barcamplondon3/ BarCamp London 3 Schedule] - uses hCalendar in a semantic <code>table</code> with <code>id</code> and <code>headers</code> attributes. Provides "Subscribe" and "Download" links using the [http://feeds.technorati.com/events/ Technorati Events Feed service].
* [http://adactio.com/extras/schedules/web2expo-berlin/ 2007 Web 2.0 Expo Berlin Schedule] - uses hCalendar in a semantic <code>table</code> with <code>id</code> and <code>headers</code> attributes. Provides "Subscribe" and "Download" links using the [http://feeds.technorati.com/events/ Technorati Events Feed service].

== related pages ==
{{hcalendar-related-pages}}

User:KierenPitts

2008-01-02T18:26:35Z

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==Kieren Pitts==

Kieren is a Senior Technical Researcher at the [http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk Institute for Learning and Research Technology] and also Web master for the [http://www.amentsoc.org Amateur Entomologists' Society]. He is a biologist by training and has a PhD in entomology from the [http://www.bris.ac.uk University of Bristol] but has been developing Web sites (both freelance and professionally) since 1995.

Kieren is a proponent of:
*[[species]]

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species

2006-10-14T14:15:33Z

KierenPitts: /* Contributors */

=Species=

:'''For the latest ideas, and to make comments, please see [[species-brainstorming]].'''

==Introduction==

People use the vernacular AND taxonomic names of species in everyday speech and writing - just read or watch any populist gardening magazine or television programme.

Consider this list: "'''Blackbird'''", "'''poodle'''", "'''T Rex'''", "'''potato'''", "'''French Marigold'''", "'''Wisteria'''", "'''E. Coli'''", "'''HIV'''", "'''Rubella'''" and "'''human being'''".

"'''T Rex'''" is "''Tyrannosaurus rex''"; "'''E. Coli'''" is "''Escherichia coli''"; "'''HIV'''" is "''Human immunodeficiency virus''" and "'''Rubella'''" is "''Rubella virus''". All are the taxonomic (or scientific) names of unique species.

"'''''Wisteria'''''" is a taxonomic genus.

"'''Blackbird'''"; "'''poodle'''"; "'''potato'''"; "'''French Marigold'''" and "'''human being'''" (arguments about Neanderthals not withstanding) are vernacular (or common) names, but still refer to individual species.

The scientific naming of organisms is a part of [http://www.calacademy.org/research/informatics/sblum/pub/biodiv_informatics.html biodiversity informatics] - "the application of information technology to the domain of biodiversity".

==Proposal==
Imagine viewing a web page with a reference to a species - and being able to use an add-on to you browser to be taken directly to information about that species, on, say, Wikipedia, or Wikispecies, or Google Images, or another site, such as in an academic database, of your choosing.

Your software would automatically know to search site A if the scientific name referred to a moth, site B for a bird, and site C for a plant - and you could set your preferences as to which sites those were to be, and in which order two or more were to be searched (e.g. for moths, try [http://ukmoths.org.uk/ UK Moths] first, if not found try [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/lepindex/index.html The Global Lepidoptera Names Index]).

Or supposing someone writes a long, chronologically-ordered web page about all the birds, insects, mammals and plants they saw on a wildlife safari, with lots of prose description about the paces where they saw them and the people they were with, but you want to extract a list of species, sorted into alphabetical order within taxonomic class (birds first, then insects then...) or in taxonomic order.

Those are just two of the things a "species" microformat might do for you.

==Existing taxonomies==
The proposal respects all existing biological taxonomies, and is not intended to change or supplant any of them - it is intended merely to provide webmasters (from personal hobby sites to major academic databases; from news outlets to retail organisations) with a method of either:

# marking-up a taxonomical name (or taxon-common name pair) in such a way that its components can be recognised by computers '''or'''
# marking up a common name, so as to associate with it a taxonomical name, in such a way that the latter's components can be recognised by computers.

==Embedding within other microformats==
The proposed [[plant]] microformat (with care regime, supplier, etc.), [[hlisting]] or [[hReview]] (and possibly others) could contain a scientific name microformat, in the same way that an [[hCalendar]] can contain an [[hCard]].

See also: [[species-brainstorming#Future development]]

==References==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_classification Wikipedia: Scientific classification]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature Wikipedia: Binomial nomenclature]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinomial_nomenclature Wikipedia: Trinomial nomenclature]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxon Wikipedia: Taxon]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivar Wikipedia: Cultivars]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_%28biology%29 Wikipedia: Varieties]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvariety Wikipedia: Sub-varieties]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_%28botany%29 Wikipedia: forms]
*[http://www.iczn.org/ http://www.iczn.org/ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature Wikipedia: International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]
*[http://www.iczn.org/ International Code of Botanical Nomenclature]
*[http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantnaming.asp RHS Plant Finder: The naming of plants]
*[http://www.ishs.org/sci/icracpco.htm International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants]
*[http://www.tdwg.org/index.html Taxonomic Databases Working Group]
*[http://www.hortax.org.uk/ Hortax] - The Names of Garden Plants
*[http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm]
*[http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page WikiSpecies]
*[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taxonomy Wiktionary: Taxonomy]
*[http://jbi.nhm.ku.edu/index.php/jbi/article/view/25 Biodiversity Informatics: Taxonomic names, metadata, and the Semantic Web]

==Contributors==
*[[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] (proponent)
*[[User:RogerHyam|Roger Hyam]] (interested party?)
*[[User:SXBRC|Charles Roper]], [http://www.sxbrc.org.uk/ Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre] (proponent)
*[[User:SteveMcBill|Steve McWilliam]], [http://www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk/ rECOrd - The Biodiversity Information System for the Cheshire region] (proponent)
*[[User:KierenPitts|Kieren Pitts]], [http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ ILRT - Institute for Learning and Research Technology] and the [http://www.amentsoc.org/ Amateur Entomologists' Society] (proponent)

==See also==
Here's some work-in-progress:

*[[species-examples]]
*[[species-brainstorming]]

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