Now linking to Wikipedia and the RSPB

17th January 2010

We've made some improvements to our species pages. For species with a Wikipedia page, we now show a short abstract and a link to the full article. Some examples: Patagonian Mara, Amur Leopard and Grizzly Bear.

We are also linking to the RSPB's excellent online Bird guide on more than 50 of our bird pages - for example, Puffin, Tawny Owl and Red Kite. The RSPB bird guide has sound clips and videos in addition to population, conservation and breeding information and beautiful illustrations.

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Excellent work you're doing here, Simon. Are the RSPB links made manually, and the wikipedia ones automatic?

Richard Boulton at 17th January 2010 01:52
Pretty much - I scraped the titles and abstracts for the RSPB pages (which are listed on their alphabetical index page, so I only had to hit them 26 times). I've got a really basic tool for manually matching those with our species, since there are only 200 pages anyway.

The Wikipedia ones were extracted automatically using a tortiously complicated combination of Freebase and DBpedia. I'm planning to write that up in detail.

Simon at 17th January 2010 09:19
HI Simon, can you put this RSPB link in a tab so's oldies like me can find it easily?

Trisha Downe at 17th January 2010 21:55

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