Wednesday, March 18, 2026

SimpleMappr is dead, long live SimpleMappr?

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David Shorthouse, perhaps best know for his fabulous Bionomia project is also the author of SimpleMappr , a web site for generating public...

Using AI to revive a macOS app to preview GIS files

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About a decade agho when I was working with GIS files, such as shapefiles , there was a nice QuickLook plugin for Macs called 1. GISLook t...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Using AI to understand a DNA barcoding mystery

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As I continue to add features to BOLD-View I keep coming across interesting cases where something seems not quite right with the data. Typ...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

GBIF Geocoder: using GBIF to find places on a map

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How to cite: Page, R. (2026). GBIF Geocoder: using GBIF to find places on a map https://doi.org/10.59350/7g6pt-3mz06 I’ve relaunched a “to...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Model Context Protocol (MCP) and triple stores: natural language queries for knowledge graphs

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Some quick notes based on experiments with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and (Claude]( https://claude.ai ). Model Context Protocol (MCP) i...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

Make Data Count Kaggle Competition

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I’ve written several times here about the Make Data Count project and its major output to date, the Data Citation Corpus , currently at ve...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

How many times are DNA barcoding datasets cited?

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This note accompanies a dataset that I uploaded to Zenodo ( https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15824274 ). My goal in creating this dataset is t...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

A metabarcoding mess and the importance of just looking at the data

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How to cite: Page, R. (2025). A metabarcoding mess and the importance of just looking at the data. https://doi.org/10.59350/q2v8n-wc488 He...