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##Progress Report #Week 10: Integrated angucomplete with the location search. #Week 9: Completed autcomplete feature, however, the field doesn't update on selection of dropdown. Started looking into the documentation for the angucomplete directive as a possible alternative. #Week 8: Started working on autocomplete. Started looking into GBIF's search API and JQuery UI's autocomplete library. #Week 7: Worked with Roy on adding a new search field for filtering by location, most probably at the country level. This is the most precise bounding area that is common to all the databases we're currently looking at. #Week 6: Integrated some of the databases with the front end.
#Week 5: Interdependence and coupling between database specific retrieval functions and front end table population became too high, so we decided to start from scratch. Built a simple search module, with empty placeholder retrieval functions for each database. Got rid of the extraneous CSS and Bootstrap as well. #Week 4: Continued trying to integrate the databases with the front end table. Ran into some issues with stacking promises with for loops. Restructured project files for greater clarity and modularity. #Week 3: Worked with Roy to integrate APIs for searching GBIF and iDigBio. Researched and implemented promises to solve the asynchronous request issue. Search still not working as desired. #Week 2: Installed, read about,and walked through tutorials for Angular.JS. Worked with Roy to build a sample front end interface. We managed to create a HTML table and populate it dynamically with Angular. We also worked on using the JSON returned by the API call instead of some dummy data.

#Week 1 ##Bird Database List: ###eBird http://ebird.org/

eBird’s goal is to maximize the utility and accessibility of the vast numbers of bird observations made each year by recreational and professional bird watchers. It is amassing one of the largest and fastest growing biodiversity data resources in existence. It has a ton of different data formats (GPS locations and spatial boundaries, filter-by regions, sighting counts, real-time graphs and visualizations, etc.) . They have a prepackaged and customizable file downloads and APIs available on request, and I sent an email for the same. If it doesn’t go through, all their data is outputted to a single HTML table, so it shouldn’t be too hard to scrape manually.

###Seabird Tracking Database http://www.seabirdtracking.org

The Seabird Tracking Database - Tracking Ocean Wanderers - is the largest collection of seabird tracking data in existence. It serves as a central store for seabird tracking data from around the world and aims to help further seabird conservation work and support the tracking community. Only certain database records are publicly available, but I sent a request for full access, and should hear back in a couple of days.

###Effechecka http://www.effechecka.org/

The purpose of Effechecka is to create, save, export and follow checklists given specific spatial, taxonomic and trait constraints using data sources including, but not limited to, GBIF, iDigBioand EOL TraitBank. Exports to JSON, CSV, or using EOL API key. Returns animals in that region, along with occurrence count.

Data Format Table:

|taxon name| taxon path| record count|

###World Bird Names http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ioc-lists/master-list-2/

The IOC World Bird List is an open access resource of the international community of ornithologists. Our goal is to facilitate worldwide communication in ornithology and conservation based on an up-to-date classification of world birds and a set of English names that follows explicit guidelines for spelling and construction (Gill & Wright 2006). Doesn’t have GPS or spatial data.

Data Format Table:

|Rank| Extinct? (†)| English name| Scientific Name| Breeding Range|

###Avibase http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/

Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 17 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more. Doesn’t have an API as far as I can tell, but outputs to a HTML table.