Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Revisiting RSS to monitor the latest taxonomic research

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Over a decade ago RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) was attracting a lot of interest as a way to integrate data across v...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Problems with Plazi parsing: how reliable are automated methods for extracting specimens from the literature?

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The Plazi project has become one of the major contributors to GBIF with some 36,000 datasets yielding some 500,000 occurrences (see Plazi&#...
Thursday, October 07, 2021

Reflections on "The Macroscope" - a tool for the 21st Century?

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This is a guest post by Tony Rees . It would be difficult to encounter a scientist, or anyone interested in science, who is not familiar ...
Friday, August 27, 2021

JSON-LD in the wild: examples of how structured data is represented on the web

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I've created a GitHub repository so that I can keep track of the examples of JSON-LD that I've seen being actively used, for example...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Species Cite: linking scientific names to publications and taxonomists

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I've made Species Cite live. This is a web site I've been working on with the GBIF Challenge as a notional deadline so I'll act...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Towards a WikiCite search engine

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I've released a simple search engine for publications in Wikidata. Wikicite Search takes its name from the WikiCite project, which was...

Citation parsing tool released

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Quick note on a tool I've been working on to parse citations, that is to take a series of strings such as: Möllendorff O (1894) On a ...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Compiling a C++ application to run on Heroku

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TL;DR Use a buildpack and set "LDFLAGS=--static" --disable-shared I use Heroku to host most of my websites, and since I mostly ...