BIODIDAC - What's new?
- 8/1/2001
- 9 photos from of the Ottawa local fauna and flora.
- 7/31/2001
- 32 photos of freshwater algae and cyanobacteria. A contribution from Luc Brient, of the Académie de Rennes.
- 7/30/2001
- 24 magnificent photos of aquatic and litter invertebrates. A contribution from Jean-François Cornuet.
- 7/25/2001
- 80 line drawings of the perch, rat, lamprey, turtle and a few of the minor protostome phyla.
- 7/5/2001
- 39 new photos from Jean-Marie Cavanihac
- 6/22/2001
- To improve online browsing of the current 599 labeled diagrams in CorelDraw cdr format, Macromedia Flash (swf) versions of the files can now be displayed.
- 6/20/2001
- Photo of a parasitic lamprey: Ichthyomyzon unicuspis. Gracieuseté de Claude Renaud
- 6/13/2001
- Annotated photo of the heart region of Scyliorhinus canicula . Gracieuseté d'Éliane Larras-Regard
- 6/11/2001
- 22 items : 16 magnificent photos from which 6 are annotated (in ppt format). A contribution from a new collaborator residing in Marseille: Jean-Marie Cavanihac
- 6/11/2001
- Current statistics on registered users.
- 6/9/2001
- New section for other sites providing images for teaching and for some sites using BIODIDAC material.
- 6/7/2001
- A list of mentions and awards that BIODIDAC has received.
- 6/4/2001
- BIODIDAC migrates onto a new server. Organization of material and presentation updated.
- 5/22/2001
- 248 photos : shark, (Squalus acanthias), frog (Rana pipiens), perch (Perca flavescens ), fetal pig (Sus scrofa).
- 8/22/2000
- 34 line drawings of vertebrates.
- 8/7/2000
- 121 photos of Squalus acanthias internal anatomy.
- 7/8/2000
- 25 line drawings of insects and vertebrates.
- 6/19/2000
- 17 line drawings of Necturus internal anatomy.
- 6/15/2000
- 24 photos of Necturus musculature.
- 6/6/2000
- 54 photos of Necturus internal anatomy.
- 6/5/2000
- 28 photos of Necturus.
- 4/23/2000
- 6 photos of cnidarians.
- 4/16/2000
- 16 items : photos of insect mouthparts and line drawings of vertebrates.
- 4/6/2000
- 33 line drawings of insects.
- 2/18/2000
- 16 line drawings of worms and molluscs.
- 2/4/2000
- 36 underwater photos taken at St Kitts and Saba by Peter Crawford.
- 12/14/1999
- 32 photos of flatworms and cnidarians.
- 12/10/1999
- 13 items: flatworms and nematode line drawings.
- 10/20/1999
- 44 items: plant and fungi photos of microscopic slides.
- 10/18/1999
- 85 items mainly annotated diagrams (.cdr) and a few colored diagrams.
- 10/14/1999
- 14 line drawings on protists and cnidarians.
- 9/9/1999
- 19 line drawings of insect internal anatomy added.
- 8/3/1999
- 17 line drawings of insect internal anatomy added.
- 7/7/1999
- 187 line drawings and photos added: Line drawings of insects, cnidarians, and Crustaceans. Dissection photos od the cricket, the cockroach, the crayfish, and the crab.
- 1/29/1999
- 950 diagrams and photos added, for a total of 4325 elements! Thanks to Jon Houseman, there is now 41 video clips in AVI format.
- 8/25/1998
- Histology pictures have been reorganized to facilitate their use and, thanks to Philippe Lagacé-Wiens and Ibrahima Diallo from the Collège Universitaire de St-Boniface, french descriptions have been added.
- 10/18/1997
- A surge of activity. AltaVista has finally indexed all pages, and this has brought us numerous visitors from there, or from Yahoo (which utilizes the same database).
- 9/23/1997
- There are now 3375 items in the image base, and more than 25,000 images have been downloaded to date. The 426 registered users say that BIODIDAC material is seen by more than 143,700 students this year.
- 9/23/1997
- Human biology diagrams start to appear.
- 8/23/1997
- Underwater photographs of of marine benthic invertebrates from Giberson and Crawford (UPEI) added.
- 8/20/1997
- A minor update. We now run under ColdFusion 3.01 and the data base has been converted to Access 97.
- 1/21/1997
- BIODIDAC has a new web server, a Pentium Pro 200 MHz with 64 Mb of RAM. It runs under Windows NT 4.0, IIS 3.0, and Cold Fusion 2.0. The layout of the pages has changed, performance and stability is better, and bank elements should rapidly be indexed by search engines now that the dynamic pages can be searched by spiders and robots.
- 7/30/1996
- There are now 2755 elements in the image base. More than 7400 transfers of images have been made to date. Non-zoology material is appearing slowly on the server (Plantae , Bacteria , Fungi ). Descriptions and much more to come. Photos of insects from the Department of Biology, University of Alberta are finally available.
- 1/22/1996
- The BIODIDAC web site now runs under Purveyor.
- 1/22/1996
- The beta test period is over, for better or worse, all traffic now goes to the new server. It is a 90MHz Pentium with 32MB of RAM running Windows NT 3.51.
- 1/12/1996
- Files in the CorelDraw format (.cdr) are now correctly downloaded to most clients. Thanks to Mamadou Diallo for finding this big bug.
- 1/8/1996
- The new server is operational and opened to users to test it. The catalog will now always be up to date because it is automatically generated directly from the database. Moreover, it will now be possible to search by keywords. The days of the Linux server are ending. It will be retired as soon as the new server has proved its worth
- 1/3/1996
- Images produced this summer is incorporated in the data bank that now contains 2231 elements. Material on Chordata, Mollusca, Platyhelminthes, Protozoa, Cnidaria, and Hemichordata has been considerably updated.
- 1/3/1995
- The BIODIDAC web server is born. It runs under Linux on a 486-33MHz with 8Mb of RAM
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