What's New
The Lacewing Digital Library (LDL) is a web portal designed to provide access to high-quality digital information about lacewings, antlions, fishflies, snakeflies and related insects in the superorder Neuropterida. The portal is being developed under a broad and inclusive vision, and its project team is working to create a dynamic resource that can serve the neuropterological, systematics and collections communities. The notes below provide a chronological record of some of the major events in the growth and development of the LDL. Check here for news on the latest LDL components and functionality, and for information on updates to previous LDL components.
15 February 2008
A new version of the long-running Neuropterists Directory is first publicly announced as part of the Lacewing Digita Library web portal. The newly updated directory site features a completely redesigned interface that incorporates additional data fields; new functionality for searching, adding, and updating entries; and a new 'Group E-mailer' feature, all designed to encourage and better enable communication among the dispersed members of the global neuropterological community.
31 October 2007
The Lacewing Digital Library web portal is first publicly announced as a new on-line resource. The inaugural posting of the portal provides access to the following resources:
(1) the Lacewing Digital Library web portal module,
(2) version 2.00 of the Neuropterida Species of the World catalogue, and
(3) on the LDL Downloads page, version 1.00 of Neuropterida Species of the World: a dataset for collection curators.
The LDL web portal module contains core navigational functionality for the portal and a suite of pages that provide general information about the portal's current implementation, associated personnel, vision and related information. Version 2.00 of the Neuropterida Species of the World catalogue is the successor to the current Index to the Neuropterida Species of the World website. The new version of the catalogue contains a completely redesigned user interface and significantly enhanced search functionality. For each species-group name, associated data are reported in up to 41 fields (up from 8 fields in the prior version). Other substantive updates include the ability to view multiple name combinations and the addition of extensive new data, particularly for primary type specimens. For more information on these and other updates see the catalogue’s version history. The new world Neuropterida dataset for collection curators provides access to basic taxonomic, nomenclatural and distributional data appropriate for the development and maintenance of preserved collections of lacewings, fishflies and snakeflies.