Inaugural Post

I'm a latecomer to the blog scene so thought I'd try my hand at it.

This blog will include bits that have fallen off the wagon as it were while developing The Canadian Arachnologist, The Nearctic Spider Database, The Nearctic Arachnologists' Forum and Spider WebWatch. The latter is a citizen science initiative that accepts observation data on 9 ambassador species in North America. I have a strong interest in federating biological data so there will undoubtedly be posts about nomenclatural management, species concepts, data aggregation techniques and the like.