Modelling ecological data.
Conference Proceeding
Barclay, P. J., & Kennedy, J. (1992)
Modelling ecological data. In H. Hinterberger, & J. C. French (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Working Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (77-93
Ecological surveys generate large quantities of data; database technology has not yet reached its full
potential in this area. Here we investigate approaches to modelling ecol...
The challenge of visualising multiple overlapping classification.
Conference Proceeding
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Hand, C. (1999)
The challenge of visualising multiple overlapping classification. In N. W. Paton, & T. Griffiths (Eds.), Proceedings [of] IEEE User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems (UIDIS) 1999, 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1109/UIDIS.1999.791461
Techniques for visualising hierarchies have concentrated on displaying static structures or, in the case of dynamic hierarchies, adding or deleting nodes from the hierarchy. H...
The Prometheus database for taxonomy
Conference Proceeding
Raguenaud, C., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. (2000)
The Prometheus database for taxonomy. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2000 (250-252). https://doi.org/10.1109/ssdm.2000.869793
This paper presents the work carried out in the Prometheus project and its motivation, taxonomy. Taxonomy presents challenges to common database systems. Because of its comple...
Towards a methodology for developing visualizations
Journal Article
GRAHAM, M., KENNEDY, J., & BENYON, D. (2000)
Towards a methodology for developing visualizations. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(5), 789-807. doi:10.1006/ijhc.2000.0415
This paper presents a case study of the development of a visualization to represent and explore the relationships between multiple hierarchical structures, specifically botani...
Two approaches to representing multiple overlapping classifications: a comparison [plant taxonomy]
Conference Proceeding
Raguenaud, C., Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2002)
Two approaches to representing multiple overlapping classifications: a comparison [plant taxonomy]. In L. Kerschberg, & M. Kafatos (Eds.), Proceedings [of the] Thirteenth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2001, 239-244. https://doi.org/10.1109/ssdm.2001.938556
Plant taxonomy is the science of classification of plants. One of the tasks of plant taxonomy is the creation of classifications of organisms that allows the understanding of ...
Using a persistent system to construct a customised interface to an ecological db.
Conference Proceeding
Barclay, P. J., Fraser, C., & Kennedy, J. (1993)
Using a persistent system to construct a customised interface to an ecological db. In Interfaces to Database Systems: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Interfaces to Database Systems (IDS92), Glasgow, 1-3 July 1992 (225-243
New applications of information technology have increasingly sophisticated user interface requirements. Such interfaces are sometimes highly application specific and therefore...
Scientific names are ambiguous as identifiers for biological taxa: their context and definition are required for accurate data integration
Conference Proceeding
Kennedy, J., Kukla, R., & Paterson, T. (2005)
Scientific names are ambiguous as identifiers for biological taxa: their context and definition are required for accurate data integration. In B. Ludaescher, & L. Raschid (Eds.), Data Integration in the Life Sciences, 80-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/11530084_8
Biologists use scientific names to label the organisms described in
their data; however, these names are not unique identifiers for taxonomic entities.
Alternative taxonomic c...
A comparison of set-based and graph-based visualisations of overlapping classification hierarchies.
Conference Proceeding
Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Hand, C. (2000)
A comparison of set-based and graph-based visualisations of overlapping classification hierarchies. In V. Gesu, S. Levialdi, & L. Tarantino (Eds.), 5th Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2000), 41-50. https://doi.org/10.1145/345513.345243
The visualisation of hierarchical information sets has been a staple of Information Visualisation since the field came into being in the early 1990's. However, at present, sup...
A methodology for composing well-defined character descriptions.
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Paterson, T., Cannon, A., Raguenaud, C., Russell, G., Armstrong, K. E., MacDonald, S. M., …Kennedy, J. (2003)
A methodology for composing well-defined character descriptions
Taxonomy has been described as “the science of documenting biodiversity”, which involves collecting, naming, describing, identifying and classifying specimens of organisms (Ke...
Novel visualisation techniques for working with multiple, overlapping classification hierarchies
Journal Article
Graham, M., Watson, M. F., & Kennedy, J. (2002)
Novel visualisation techniques for working with multiple, overlapping classification hierarchies. Taxon, 51, 351-358
A Java-based program is presented that provides a visualisation tool for display of and comparison between classification hierarchies. Taxa, or groups of taxa, can be tracked ...