Thursday, May 29, 2008

When DOIs collide and then disappear: when is a unique, resolvable identifier a bad idea?

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As much as I like the idea of a globally unique, resolvable identifier, my recent experience with JSTOR is making me wonder. JSTOR has three...
Friday, May 23, 2008

QOTD

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Setting all these reservations and biases aside, the total number of living organisms that have received Latin binomial names is currently a...

BioOne (and/or CrossRef) sucks

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<rant> BioOne sucks. Really, really, sucks. I have lost count of the number of times they break DOIs. These are supposed to be the gol...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

iPhylo on Google Code

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Partly inspired by Pedro Beltra's post Open Science project on domain family expansion about using Google Code as a project management ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

TAXACOM indexed by MarkMail

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MarkMail is a great tool for searching mail archives. Although focussing on software development projects, they are open to requests, so la...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit

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I've just discovered Nicolas Garcia Belmonte's JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT) . Wow! This is very cool stuff (an...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008

Open Access logo - help

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Trivial as this may seem, I'm trying to find out who designed this "Open Access" logo, and whether there are some original fil...
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Fixing GBIF

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The more I play with GBIF the more I come across some spectacular errors. Here's one small example of what can go wrong, and how easy i...
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Monday, May 05, 2008

iPhylo Demo

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I started this blog with the goal of documenting my own efforts to make a database of evolutionary trees, based on ideas sketched in hdl:10....
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Colossal squid

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The dissection of the colossal squid ( Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni ) specimen from Antarctica has been getting a lot of coverage. Pangs of ho...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

EOL Review

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Last month I was at the MBL in Woods Hole, taking part in the review of the Biodiversity Informatics Group. BIG is responsible for the EOL w...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Paper published

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Bit of a rarity these days. My paper on identifiers in biodiversity informatics, which I mentioned earlier when I deposited the preprint at...
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Monday, April 28, 2008

Google Code wiki using Subversion

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For some time now Google Code has been displaying the message: The web interface for wiki content is currently READ-ONLY for maintenance. ...
Thursday, April 03, 2008

Biodiversity informatics: the challenge of linking data and the role of shared identifiers

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The manuscript for Briefings in Bioinformatics that I alluded to earlier has been accepted for publication. I've put a preprint up at ...
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Phylowidget

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Greg Jordan and Bill Piel have released PhyloWidget , a Java applet for viewing phylogenetic trees. It's very slick, with some nice vis...
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Systematics as Cyberscience

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Vince Smith alerted me to "Systematics as Cyberscience", by Christine Hine, whose work I've mentioned earlier . Looks like an...
Monday, March 10, 2008

Google's Social Graph API

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Google's Social Graph API was released earlier this year. The motivation: With so many websites to join, users must decide where to inv...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

CrossRef adds more information to OpenURL resolver

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Tom Pasley recently drew my attention to CrossRef's addition of a XML format parameter to their OpenURL resolver. Adding &format=xm...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

PageRank for biodiversity

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This will probably tempt fate, but I've an invited manuscript in review for Briefings in Bioinformatics on the topic of identifiers in ...
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Word for the day - "transclusion"

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Stumbled across Project Xanadu , Ted Nelson's vision of the way the web should be (e.g., BACK TO THE FUTURE: Hypertext the Way It Used T...
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