Animal Diversity Web content on the Encyclopedia of Life
October 17, 2008 - 12:00AMAnimal Diversity Web content is now available through the Encyclopedia of Life (http://eol.org/). ADW and EoL have agreed to share content and resources to increase access to animal natural history information.
Taxon Tree offline
October 04, 2007 - 12:00AMTaxon Tree, the graphic taxonomy visualization tool previously available through the Animal Diversity Web, is no longer available on the site. We continue to look into ways to coordinate ADW database and Taxon Tree development.
New collaboration with UM School of Education
October 03, 2007 - 12:00AMThe Animal Diversity Web and University of Michigan's School of Education continue their collaboration developing and testing biodiversity curricula in Detroit Public Schools. The "DeepThink" project was funded by the National Science Foundation's Learning Progressions program. This project will develop, implement, and test an innovative set of curricula for 4th, 5th, and 6th grades with structured progression in both content and reasoning complexity.
"Exploring Natural History" funded
October 03, 2007 - 12:00AMThe Animal Diversity Web received funding from the National Science Foundation's Course Curriculum and Lab Improvement program to develop, implement, and assess the use of our structured query tool for inquiry learning in a variety of undergraduate courses. This structured query tool permits complex queries to extract ADW natural history data, which can then be used to directly test hypotheses in organismal biology. The structured query tool, and exercises designed for it, will be tested in 5 undergraduate institutions in Fall 2007.
Animal Diversity Web taxon accounts available in Web Ontology Language (OWL)
November 06, 2006 - 12:00AMAs part of a collaborative effort with the ETHAN (Evolutionary Trees and Natural History Ontology) project, the Animal Diversity Web is now providing Web Ontology Language (OWL) versions of all of its animal taxon accounts. The Animal Diversity Web will continue to cooperate with projects involving development of the semantic web. More information on recent work in the ETHAN project is available here.
The Animal Diversity Web reaches a milestone
September 01, 2006 - 12:00AMOn August 27th, 2006 the Animal Diversity Web published its 3000th animal taxon account! We continue to add content of all kinds and now also have over 11,000 images, 2758 images of museum specimens, and 724 sound files. These 3000 taxon accounts includes more than 1500 mammal species accounts, approximately %38 percent of all extant mammal species. We anticipate publishing an additional 100 animal taxon accounts by the end of 2006.
Older news:
- Lifespan and mass databases added to ADW (October 15, 2007)
- BioKIDS boosts test scores (June 21, 2006)
- Animal Diversity Web updates its avian taxonomy (March 13, 2006)
- Director of the ADW is honored for his research on South American rodents (August 15, 2005)
- ADW and BioKIDS get high praise from MERLOT (August 14, 2005)
- TaxonTree Launches on ADW (July 26, 2005)
- WDIL Symposium (July 10, 2005)
- Coalition for National Science Funding (July 08, 2005)
- Internet Scout Report recognizes ADW (February 04, 2005)
- ADW kudos (January 12, 2005)
- Welcome to the new Animal Diversity Web! (January 12, 2004)
- Site Management and Content Improvements (February 01, 2003)
- News History (January 01, 2003)