Saturday, October 24, 2020

Visualising article coverage in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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It's funny how some images stick in the mind. A few years ago Chris Freeland ( @chrisfreeland ), then working for Biodiversity Heritage ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

GBIF Challenge success

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Somewhat stunned by the fact that my DNA barcode browser I described earlier was one of the (minor) prizewinners in this year's GBIF Eb...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Using the hypothes.is API to annotate PDFs

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Sometimes it's the small victories. Using the @hypothes_is API to annotate a scientific name in the PDF for https://t.co/WU9IAAztE5 it...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Darwin Core Million reminder, and thoughts on bad data

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The following is a guest post by Bob Mesibov . No winner yet in the second Darwin Core Million for 2020, but there are another two and a ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Personal knowledge graphs: Obsidian, Roam, Wikidata, and Xanadu

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The workflow & cost of my current Personal Knowledge OS setup, key tools includes @RoamResearch @readwiseio @instapaper @AirrAudio @...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Entity Explosion: bringing Wikidata to every website

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A week ago Toby Hudson ( @tobyhudson ) released a very cool Chrome (and now Firefox) extension called Entity Explosion . If you install the ...

Workshop On Open Citations And Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 talk

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I'm giving a short talk at the Workshop On Open Citations And Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 , which will be held online on September 9th....
Friday, August 21, 2020

Taxonomic concepts: a possible way forward

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Reading the GitHub issue Define objective rules for taxon concept identity referred to by Markus Döring in a comment on a previous post , ...