out local species • With widespread & frequent travel (both regional & international) it’s too easy to transport species • People might not be aware of the problem, risks, or consequences • Once a species has made themselves at home, there’s little recourse, so education is the most important factor
terms for real world situations • Simplicity & flexibility to be globally applicable • Getting, aggregating, and making the data widely available • Making data generic enough & standards compliant to be used in a wide range of end-use applications
progress in a single weekend? • What if someone else has a better/alternate idea of how to educate end-users or use our data? • How could we merge scientific research data with amateur end-user data?
& collaborate on the data • Simple, light-weight, standards compliant HTTP REST API returning JSON-encoded data • Using scientific-standard KPCOFGS nomenclature & standard geospatial coordinate system • PHP & MySQL implementation, building on existing geometry functions • Developers, developers, developers!
endpoints) & documentation • Polish example widget as reference implementation and for easy use on organization websites • Coordinate with researchers, data sources, and developers to get wider use • ... • Profit! (Or ‘Educate!’, or whatever...)