Amphibian Research Primer Tutorial
Today we have another in the series of biology research web applications that we started with Insect Research Primer Tutorial …
Research on the Internet is very easy these days, and there are combinations of websites out there for your research.
Often, great scientific research data is posted online by universities and schools. This is very generous, and so many users, including us, appreciate this data. Today, as with WordPress 4.1.1’s Insect Research Primer Tutorial, we found the Insects A to Z : Find : Insects : University of Minnesota Extension website irresistably great research data for the web application today.
Augmenting this technical specialized research data are the generic (but also extending to the technical and specialized) information sources like …
- the encyclopaedic data sources, our favourite being Wikipedia
- the search engines, our favourite being Google
We find the combination of that really technical university research data in combination with a more generic image search on Google a fairly potently good combination of research tools …
… in coming up with today’s web application, that being research into Amphibians. We also add an interface to the recent “Karaoke via YouTube API” (put to this different purpose) interface that we last talked about with Karaoke via YouTube API in Iframe Email Tutorial, for video lookup functionality, as well. This required the HTML and Javascript and CSS karaoke_youtube_api.htm to change in this way for this interfacing logic.
Guess the bottom line with research like this, or anything, is, the balance between “information overload” and “information accuracy”. We think you can miss out on interesting things if you become too snobbish to look at research websites that you have been told “not to visit” because they are not highbrow enough for some in depth research you’re doing. Think, for us, it’s more the case that you need to gain experience over time of what looks good and isn’t, rather than dismissing it out of hand.
Research websites like Wikipedia tackle this challenge by opening up the writing of content, and the subsequent chance to critique that content, to the general public, and you’ll often see that results of that process up the top of the article for all to see. Then it is up to you to see what you believe or not by reading the article … or not.
Anyway, hope you enjoy today’s Amphibian web application and/or its associated HTML and Javascript and jQuery Ajax inspired amphibian_lookup.html programming source code.
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