Web Projects and Software

• The Electronic Flora of South Australia is the Web site of the State Herbarium of South Australia's Plant Biodiversity Centre. It provides information on plant species and their geographical distributions, and on herbarium specimens. I worked with the Plant Biodiversity Centre in developing a prototype of this site, which mainly involved writing perl CGI programs to generate Web pages showing plant species distributions, herbarium specimen information, and species fact sheets.

• Australia's Virtual Herbarium is a Web-based information system that combines plant species and specimen information from all the herbaria in Australia. I helped design and develop a prototype of this Web-based information system, including the generation of real-time maps of herbarium specimen collection data from distributed databases throughout Australia.
  

• The NPAC/OLDA Visible Human Viewer is a Java applet that lets you slice up a person in the comfort and safety of your own home, without all the mess that's usually involved in such activities.
  • A winner of Sun Microsystems' Java Cup International competition, in the education section.
  • Awarded the best new applet on the Web for December 1995, and ranked in the top 1% of all applets, by the Java Applet Rating Service.
  • Featured in some magazines and television programs.
  This applet was one of the first uses of Java to provide a Web-based interactive graphical user interface to a large dataset on a remote server.

• Kids Web is a Web digital library for schoolkids, started in 1994 (back when Yahoo! was just a couple of college students, and there were no good Web portals designed for kids) for a course on the Internet for 8th graders.
  • Awarded 4 stars by Magellan.
  • Included in the Point survey Top 5% of the Web,
  • Ranked as one of the top 500 Web sites in the world by Iway 500.
  I am no longer involved in maintaining the Kids Web site.

• An integrated set of Web CGI programs was developed for use in education, developed in collaboration with Community School Networks, Inc., as part of the InfoMall program.
  • WeBBoard is a Web-based discussion and bulletin board system.
  • The LivingPage allows collaborative updating of structured Web documents, such as lists of hyperlinks, using a simple forms interface.
  • VitalZines is an interactive electronic magazine, allowing user feedback.

• The NPAC Slideshow Viewer is a Java applet that lets you give slideshows to the whole world, not just friends and relatives.

• lslide2html is a perl program for converting presentations written in LaTeX using lslide.sty to HTML. It acts as a pre-processor so that latex2html can handle the document.

• List of U.S. colleges on the Internet was done in 1995 (when not many campuses had Web sites, and some were not even on the Internet) as part of a mentorship project with some high-school students. I am no longer maintaining this list.