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HTML 5 Species Taxon Microdata Using Darwin Core

November 17, 2011 bamyers99

I just added HTML 5 species taxon microdata to worldspecies.org. This provides machine readable data for certain properties of a species. ie. Taxonomy, common names, synonyms. The data is embedded in the HTML and is tagged as property name/value pairs. An example of the extracted data can be seen using Google's Rich Snippets Testing … Continue Reading ››

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CSS Progress Bar or Gauge

December 14, 2010 bamyers99

Today I needed a gauge to show where on a scale that a value fell. Example:

I wanted to use CSS instead of dynamically creating an image in PHP or creating 100 static images. I found some samples that use DIV tags to create a gauge, but I needed to … Continue Reading ››