[Syrphidae] DELTA format something for Syrphidae / Diptera /Insects?

[Gilbert Francis]

Something like that would be an excellent idea.
I have used DELTA (although not on syrphids) - it's quite a tricky format, at least in the version I used - it really showed that it was an old batch file converted, that made it very awkward and user-unfriendly
 
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Francis Gilbert 
(on sabbatical in Cairo until August 2007) 
webpage: www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg
 

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Subject: [Syrphidae] DELTA format something for Syrphidae / Diptera /Insects?



Hello all,

I was thinking of using the DELTA format as a basis for storing
syrphidae descriptions and automatically create internet keys from them
in the future.

My question to you is did someone ever do something like this with
Syrphidae/diptera/insects?
Or is there perhaps a better suitable standard format to store insect
descriptions? I preferably use only open formats with open source tools
around it in order to preserve future usability of the data.


kind regards,

Bastiaan
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