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Wiki MarkupI spotted a way cool web service at the \ [http://annualmeeting.nsdl.org/ National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Annual Meeting\] earlier this week in Washington, D.C.. Paul Allen, Assistant Director, Information Science, \ [http://birds.cornell.edu/ Cornell Lab of Ornithology\], presented the NSF-NSDL funded project _Visualizing Biodiversity Online_. The Biodiversity Analysis Pipeline is a collaborative environment for students to create and share analyses and visualizations of biodiversity data and is due to launch later this month and will utilize Fedora as a storage layer.

Project description: The Biodiversity Analysis Pipeline (BAP) is a collaborative, interactive online environment in which students, educators, citizens, resource managers, and scientists can create and share analyses and visualizations of biodiversity data. It is built to support inquiry-based learning within a "Web 2.0" environment, allowing analysis results and visualizations to be dynamically incorporated into web sites (e.g. blogs) for dissemination and consumption beyond the BAP environment itself. BAP allows anyone to access, analyze, and visualize the huge volume of primary biodiversity data currently available online. BAP provides access to powerful scientific analyses and workflows through an intuitive, rich web interface based on the visual programming paradigm, similar to Yahoo Pipes. Analyses and visualizations are authored in an open, collaborative environment which allows existing analyses and visualizations to be shared, modified, repurposed, and enhanced.

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