March 2012
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Deployment update for March 29, 2012
Good morning, friends! The EOL dev team deployed a fresh version of EOL in the last hour featuring fixes for a wide variety of “bugs” of varying severity and annoyance. We’re also putting the finishing touches on an important new feature for EOL - a notification system - as well as a variety of other interesting refinements. Stay tuned for more.
Fixes
[WEB-3490] - Collections...
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Notice: EOL consolidating GitHub accounts
Dear EOL developers:
The EOL Development Team will be making a change in the coming days which will consolidate our separate github accounts into a single account.
Previously our main EOL organization existed at http://github.com/EncyclopediaOfLife, however we are renaming this to replace the old http://github.com/eol.
You may find that after the change you will need to update your cloned...
Hard at work on the EOL Phylogenetic Tree...
Got a tree you can dust off, perhaps combine with other trees, and convert to Darwin Core Archive format?
Want to be the one to provide high quality evolutionary navigation to the Encyclopedia of Life?
Want a free trip to Ottawa, Canada?
Then you need to be part of the EOL Phylogenetic Tree Challenge. Submissions are due 15 April so there is less than one month to go!
If you are thinking...
Visit the High Line in New York City
Did you know there is a “park in the sky” in the heart of Manhattan?
Welcome to the High Line.
The High Line is a public park built on an historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side. It is owned by the City of New York, and maintained and operated by Friends of the High Line. Founded in 1999 by community residents, Friends of the High Line fought...
Check out EOL on Pinterest
I’m becoming a big fan of Pinterest, and not just because folks are sharing EOL photos there. Have a look and request a login today to begin sharing EOL photos with your friends.
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Broad-nosed Weevils on EOL
We are please to announce the availability of newly-published content from our collaborators at the University of Puerto Rico. These specimen images of Broad-nosed weevils - the Entiminae - come to us courtesy of research technician and photographer Jennifer Girón Duque.
A collection of this work is available here.
(Editor’s note - I invite an EOL contributor to provide a brief summary of...
