Thursday, June 07, 2007

Earth not flat - official

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Oops. One big problem with drawing trees in Google Earth is that the Earth, sadly, is not flat. This means that widely distributed clades ca...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Google Earth phylogenies

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Now, for something completely different. I've been playing with Google Earth as a phylogeny viewer, inspired by Bill Piel's efforts ...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

AMNH, DSpace, and OpenURL

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Hate my tribe. Hate them for even asking why nobody uses library standards in the larger world, when “brain-dead inflexibility in practice” ...
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Monday, May 28, 2007

OpenURL and spiders

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I'm not sure who said it first, but there's a librarianly spin on the old Perl paradigm I think I heard at code4libcon or Access in ...
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Biodiversity Heritage Library blog - look but don't touch

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Added the Biodiversity Heritage Library blog to my links on my blog, then noticed that BHL have disabled comments. So, we can view their pr...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

iTunes, embedded metadata, and DNA barcoding

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Continuing on this theme of embedded metadata , this is one reason why DNA barcoding is so appealing. A DNA barcode is rather like embedded...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

XMP

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Following on from the previous post , as Howison and Goodrum note, Adobe provides XMP as a way to store metadata in files, such as PDFs. XM...
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Monday, May 21, 2007

iTunes and citation metadata.

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Stumbled across a really nice paper ( Why can't I manage academic papers like MP3s? ) while reading commentary on Tim O'Reilley...
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Saturday, May 19, 2007

EoL in the blogsphere

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postgenomic is a great way to keep up with science blogs. For example, searching for encyclopedia of life pulls up all sorts of interestin...
Friday, May 18, 2007

TBMap paper out

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My paper on mapping TreeBASE names to other databases is out as provisional PDF on the BMC Bioinformatics web site ( doi:10.1186/1471-210...
Monday, May 14, 2007

More EoL commentary

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Lucy Odling-Smee has a short piece on EoL in Nature ( doi:10.1038/news070508-7 ), quoting a certain Page chap as saying "If it's d...
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Friday, May 11, 2007

EoL commentary in Science

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Mitch Leslie has written an article on EoL ( doi:10.1126/science.316.5826.818 ). It starts: Hands up if you've heard this before: An amb...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

David Shorthouse enters the blogsphere

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David Shorthouse has entered the blogsphere with his iSpiders blog. As David descrbes it: This blog will include bits that have fallen off ...

ITIS and DOIs

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Following on from my earlier grumble about how the catalogue of Life handles literature, I've spent an afternoon mapping publications i...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Catalogue of Life design flaw

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A bit more browsing of the Catalogue of Life annual checklist for 2007 reveals a rather annoying feature that, I think, cripples the Catalo...
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Encyclopedia of Life Launch

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The Encyclopedia of Life web site is up, together with some rather breathless publicity and this cool movie. Of course, it's all vapour...
Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Duplicate DOIs

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I think this isn't supposed to happen, but here's a paper with two DOIs. The first DOI is doi:10.1651/0278-0372(1997)17[253:MPAOTC]...
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Monday, May 07, 2007

Catalogue of Life, OpenURL, and taxonomic literature

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Playing with the recently released "Catalogue of Life" CD, and pondering Charles Hussey's recent post to TAXACOM about the ...
Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Google, the Ken Burns Effect, and Fractal Cognitive Engagement

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From One Big Library , a nice screencast of why Google's interface works, in contrast to the clunky interfaces favoured by librarie...
Sunday, April 22, 2007

EvoViz

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David Kidd has put together evoviz.org . To quote from the wiki: EvoViz is a collaborative Wiki space within which scientists, educators and...