Table 1

Third party services used by the Scratchpads. Third party services integrated into the Scratchpad taxon pages. Modules are held in the Scratchpad SVN repository at: http:/ / svn.scratchpads.eu/ viewvc/ scratchpads/ branches/ drupal6/ sites/ all/ modules/ ispecies/ contrib/ webcite.

Module Name

Description and API

bhl

Searches the Biodiversity Heritage Library for printed pages held within their archives that have a reference to a specific taxon name.

API: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/Tools.aspx webcite

flickr

Searching the Flickr image database for pictures that have taxon name metadata associated with them.

API: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ webcite

gbifmap

Displays maps of the world that geolocate biological occurrence records from the GBIF database.

API: http://ispecies.blogspot.com/2007/08/maps-and-google-tweak.html webcite

morphbank

Searching the morphbank image database for pictures that have taxon name metadata associated with them.

API: http://services.morphbank.net/mb webcite

ncbi

Searches the NCBI database for nucleotide sequences, protein sequences and related links.

API: http://www.programmableweb.com/api/ncbi-entrez webcite

wikipedia

Displays the initial section of a Wikipedia article for the taxon name, if the page exists.

API: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/ webcite

yahooimages

Similar to Flickr, but for Yahoo! Images.

API: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/image/V1/imageSearch.html webcite

Smith et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 14):S6   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S6