Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Small Pieces Loosely Joined

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Just finished reading Small Pieces Loosely Joined . It's a fabulous essay on the nature of the Web. The more I read it the more it confi...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

TreeBASE rocks

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I gave a talk today ("Dude, where's my tree?") at the Evolution 2006 meeting at Stony Brook. It was intended as a somewhat to...
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Taxonomic names, metadata, and the Semantic Web

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My paper "Taxonomic names, metadata, and the Semantic Web" has appeared in Biodiversity Informatics . Life Science Identifiers (LS...
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Saturday, May 27, 2006

More on trees and Google Earth

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Well, turns out Bill's not the only one putting trees on Google Earth. Declan Butler pointed me to Ogle Earth , where there is a teaser ...
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Avian flu, phylogeny, and Google Earth

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The penny just dropped (duh!). Having mentioned Bill Piel's very cool visualisation of phylogenies on Google Earth what about the other...
Friday, May 26, 2006

TreeBASE meets Google Earth

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Bill Piel has created a cool tool for creating KMZ files of phylogenies for Google Earth. From the web site : One of the components of the C...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Open Access taxonomy

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Pyramica boltoni Originally uploaded by Roderic Page . Fussing around with ants, I stumbled across this paper ( doi:10.1653/0015-40...
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Sunday, May 21, 2006

Towards the ToL database - some visions

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So, when I started this blog I promised to write something about phyloinformatics, and the goal of a phylogenetic database. I've been p...
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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Taxonomic Search Engine back online

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My Taxonomic Search Engine is back online (mostly). This tool to search multiple databases for scientific names was another casualty of hac...
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

AntBase and Web 2.0 business value

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Dion Hinchcliffe has a piece entitled Creating real business value with Web 2.0 which lists AntBase.org (I think he actually means AntWeb ...
Tuesday, May 09, 2006

CrossRef's OpenURL resolver

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CrossRef's OpenURL resolver can be used to find DOIs for papers, or give a DOI it can extract metadata. For example, consider Brian Fis...
Saturday, May 06, 2006

Updating ants

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A triple store for ants is all very well, but it contains just the information available when the triple store was created. What about upda...
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stamen design | big ideas worth pursuing

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stamen (which brought us Mappr ) has a nice discussion of data visualisation . Currently playing in iTunes: Summertime by George Benson

Ants, RDF, and triple stores

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Background In order to explore the promise of RDF and triple stores we need some large, interesting data sets. Ants are cool, there is a lo...
Thursday, May 04, 2006

Nascent: Open Text Mining Interface

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From Nature's blog on web technology and science comes this post on Open Text Mining Interface (OTMI): Every now and then a scientist c...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Normal service...

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I'm slowly restoring the services offered by Darwin , after it was hacked . So far, these services are back online: TreeView X iSpecies ...
Monday, April 24, 2006

Ambient Findability

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Ambient Findability by Peter Morville is a wonderful read, full of snippets of inspiration. In many ways, like ambient music alluded to at...
Sunday, April 23, 2006

Darwin hacked

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One of my lab's web servers was hacked last week. This machine hosts a lot of projects, such as the Glasgow Name Server , the Taxonomic...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Render DOT files on the fly on Mac OS X

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Webdot isn't available for Mac OS X, and as I use an iBook running Panther for all my development work (before moving to a Linux box to...
Sunday, April 16, 2006

YAKAFOKON: TreeMap Clustering in SVG with PHP

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Pierre Lindenbaum has a very nice PHP script for generating Treemaps in SVG .