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Smartphone-Linked Phenology Database

The document discusses justifications for linking a phenology database to phones and PDAs, noting that 140 million smartphones were sold in 2008 and sales were expected to double in 2009. It also lists the fields that would be included in the phenology database, including unique identifier, binomial name, location, time, stage, photo, URL, reporter, and abundance. The database would be connected to Twitter to accept updates from mobile devices and the web.

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Smartphone-Linked Phenology Database

The document discusses justifications for linking a phenology database to phones and PDAs, noting that 140 million smartphones were sold in 2008 and sales were expected to double in 2009. It also lists the fields that would be included in the phenology database, including unique identifier, binomial name, location, time, stage, photo, URL, reporter, and abundance. The database would be connected to Twitter to accept updates from mobile devices and the web.

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Phenology db

Jul 8, 2009 6:57:14 PM

justification for linking to phones:


140million smart phones sold in 2008
2x that expected just one year later
"smart phones have people doing more things"

filemaker db connected to Twitter accepting updates from phones, PDAs, web storing
information to following fields:

unique identifier
Genus spp. subspp. (binomial variable)
common name (variable)
Location (gps coordinates)
time (default to posting time unless stated; yyyy-mm-dd-hhmm)
Julian date (yyyy-ddd-hhmm)
stage (bloom/fruit/leaf/larval/juvenile/adult)
photo (web repository)
URL link (tolweb URL)
reporter (variable)
abundance (many/few/one)

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