I’m Jakob Jilg (he/him), an entomologist and Master’s student.
My main interest are weevils, and as you sure know, there are a lot of them. So my primary concern these days is the question:
How do we, as a research community, keep track of what we know about weevils?
While I’m not a programmer or data scientist, I’m exploring how a bit of coding, useful tools, and biodiversity data standards can make life as an entomologist easier.I use github mainly to get support for technical issues, and to host my blog. I also contribute to the development on a fork of TaxonPages, for the Curculionidae of the World Online project.
- Entomologist: I'm interested in everything, but with a special focus on weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)
- Linux & Command Line: Using Windows I had the feeling the computer does not even belong to me. So many distractions. Now I'm using Manjaro and I love it for every aspect!
- LaTeX Enthusiast: I appreciate the simplicity and structure of LaTeX, and I prefer it over Word or LibreOfice because its easy to automate parts of text generation (e.g. I can use a script to produce formatted text from a table).
- Python: Exploring its potential for data management and task automation.
- Biodiversity Data Standards and Ontologies: Diving into frameworks for managing biodiversity information.
- Collections Management Systems: Investigating how they could benefit the amateur entomology community.
- TaxonWorks (The ideal solution for research communities to collect information about organisms: taxonomy/nomenclature, distribution, images, biological associatons, bibliography, specimens, keys, morphology, etc etc)
- TaxonPages (A simple but powerful/customizable tool to publish data that is served by the TaxonWorks API)