Users that often use this tag:
cog_nate (4)
"All of the nomenclatural, bibliographic, and specimen data accumulated in
MBG’s electronic databases during the past 25 years are publicly available
here. This system has over one million scientific names and 3.5 million specimen records."
(Description from website.) Searchable by scientific or common name, the database includes brief
descriptions, images and
references (with some links to full text in
Botanicus), and
specimen and
distribution lists that are available in Google
Maps and
Earth. Quite a nice resource for anyone interested in botany.
[more inside]
posted by cog_nate
on Mar 20, 2009 -
3 comments
In the First Person "is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records."
(Description from website.) You can also browse by
repository,
collection,
subject and several other ways.
posted by cog_nate
on Aug 7, 2008 -
9 comments
"The USDA PLANTS database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories." Among the highlights are a
list of culturally significant plants and a
searchable image gallery you can submit photos to.
Forestry Images is a similar USDA-supported site dedicated to silviculture.
If that isn't enough for you, click on over to the
Germplasm Resources Information Network. There, you'll find a smorgasbord of information on virtually all the food varieties commercially raised in the US:
where the germplasm is held,
lists of species at each site,
detailed descriptions of individual accessions (e.g., cultivars), even
who owns the Red Silk Radish.
If it grows and you can
eat,
drink,
smoke or
inject it, the USDA probably has it cataloged. And if they don't, search
one of these.
posted by cog_nate
on Dec 6, 2006 -
7 comments
Cricinfo. The most extraordinary database and news site of the game of cricket, with records going back over 200 years. [much more inside]
posted by athenian
on Jul 14, 2006 -
17 comments
Mining the Deep Web. Google indexes 4 billion pages, but there are hundreds of billions of documents out there in
the Deep Web that are effectively unreachable by search engines because they are locked in databases or are unsearchable media. It looks like Yahoo is going to start giving us a peek by providing unified access to a wide variety of sites that are ordinarily only searchable by their own custom search engines.
posted by badstone
on Mar 2, 2004 -
12 comments
It's The Way You Quote Them: Frosties is a cracking new collection of quotations from
Ariga, expertly and eccentrically selected by one
I.Frost, who defines himself as "friend, philosopher and jurist" . Unlike many online dictionaries, it includes generous helpings from its chosen authors; proper references; unexpected quotations (rather than the same old chestnuts) and, above all, personality. Bravo!
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Sep 18, 2002 -
25 comments
IMDBPro Just in case you need more information than the
Internet Movie Database provides, there's now a subscription version with advanced features like STARmeter and MOVIEmaker (billed as proprietary algorithms). Is Amazon about to take on
Variety? Or is IMDB not selling enough videos with the click throughs?
posted by samuelad
on Dec 8, 2001 -
24 comments
Oh, now this is just great. Going into bankrupcy, the most valuable property that a lot of failed dot-coms have is all the information they've collected about their customers in the mean time, like names and addresses and phone numbers and credit card numbers and purchasing patterns and loads of other stuff. In order to appease creditors, three of them are actively trying to sell off their databases right now. What makes that interesting is that they had previously promised never to reveal that information to anyone.
posted by Steven Den Beste
on Jun 29, 2000 -
10 comments
Does MySQL suck? That
isn't actually the topic of a thread at the OpenACS project site... but everyone sure *thinks* it is. :-)
OpenACS is a project to port the ArsDigita Community System off of Oracle onto PostgreSQL (of which, BTW, v7.0 ships this week). If this is your cuppa, check it out. [via /.]
posted by baylink
on May 8, 2000 -
8 comments
