Sunday, February 15, 2026

GBIF Geocoder: using GBIF to find places on a map

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I’ve relaunched a “toy” tool that I made a while ago to help geocode localitiies using GBIF. Geocoding converts a text string, such as “Cam...
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...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Tracking changes in DNA barcode BINs

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Following on from releasing BOLD View I’ve started to explore how the classifcation of DNA barcodes changes over time. BOLD uses the RESL a...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Future interfaces for the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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On Wednesday this week (April 9th, 2025) I gave a talk entitled “Future interface(s) for BHL” (the slides are on FigShare ) at BHL Day 2025 ...