1. ANTWEB (www.antweb.org) Providing tools for exploring the diversity and identification of ants. Dave Thau, Brian Fisher California Academy of Sciences

2. ANTWEB Goal Accelerate the rate of description and identification

3. ANTWEB End Users Taxonomists: images of ant types and other ant specimens held in the world’s major ant collections Public: identification tools, distribution, and biology of ants

11. A NT W EB Design Goals Efficient work flow: Automate as much as possible. Blend with current habits: Leverage in-place processes. Support multiple sources of data: To achieve #1 and #2, necessary to deal with data in whatever form it comes. Maximize code life span: Stick with known standards, use open source tools.

12. Work Flow – Adding Data Project Files Excel Specimen Records Biota Database Microsoft Sql Server Browser Uploading Data Web Application Tomcat on Linux Catalog Information Spidered Hymenoptera Name Server Authority Files Excel

13. Work Flow – Adding Images SQL Server Linux File System Browser Uploading Data Picking Favorite Images Web Application Tomcat on Linux Images Created In Automontage

14. A NT W EB Tools Programming Language: Java Servlets and JSP Database: Microsoft SQL Server (sans Microsoft xtras) Design Pattern: Model-View-Controller using Struts Image Processor: Image Magick Bug Tracker: Bugzilla Project Builder: Apache Ant

15. Recent Additions Ant genera of the world Ants of the Bay Area Image Picker tool – choose best image for a taxon Catalog Information – synonymy Sticky search fields Templates via Struts tiles

16. Future Directions Distributed image sharing standards GIS services Distributed catalog information Interactive keys Descriptive data More collaborative tools Ultimately expanding beyond ants