Tuesday, July 24, 2007

I hate computers

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The PC hosting linnaeus.zoology.gla.ac.uk and darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk has died, and this spells the end of my interest in (a) using gener...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

LSID wars

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Well, the LSID discussion has just exploded in the last few weeks. I touched on this in my earlier post Rethinking LSIDs versus HTTP URI , b...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Phyloinformatics Workshop in Edinburgh October 22-24 2007

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This October 22-24 there is a phyloinformatics workshop at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, hosted in conjunction with the ...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

Making taxonomic literature available online

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Based on my recent experience developing an OpenURL service (described here , here , and here ), linking this to a reference parser and AJAX...
Saturday, June 09, 2007

Rethinking LSIDs versus HTTP URI

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The TDWG-GUID mailing list for this month has a discussion of whether TDWG should commit to LSIDs as the GUID of choice. Since the first GU...
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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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