Wednesday, July 30, 2008

iSpecies gets automated tagging

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Given that the clones are hot on my heels, I feel the need to add more bells and whistles to iSpecies . The first new feature is automated ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

iPhone, barcodes, and natural history museums

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One of my pet peeves is how backward natural history museums are in grasping the possibilities the Internet raises. Most electronic displays...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Zitgist

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Stumbled across Zitgist (via UMBEL ), and thought the diagram above was so cool I'd have to blog about it. Zitgist is one of a growing ...
Thursday, July 10, 2008

Why isn't EOL using Wikipedia?

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Interesting paper by Huss et al. in PLoS Biology entitled "A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function" ( doi:10.1371/jo...
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OpenDOI

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Brian de Alwis has written a cool Apple Script called OpenDOI that adds support for resolving doi: and hdl: URLs using Safari on a Mac. Wit...
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

It pays to put things on the Web

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Seems obvious in retrospect, but on of the great things about putting stuff online is that it may be useful to other people. What seems like...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

dechronization

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Rich Glor brought dechronization to my attention. This is a very active blog "by junior academic scientists whose research focuses on ...
Sunday, July 06, 2008

Library Git

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Just a quick not to make a link between David Shorthouse's post about taxonomic consensus and distributed version control ( Taxonomic Co...
Saturday, July 05, 2008

Agenames

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Stumbled across the cool AgeNames service, described on the stratigraphy.net blog. Agenames takes some text and extracts stratigraphic ter...
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Charting taxonomic knowledge

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Nice paper by Robert Huber and Jens Klump has appeared in Computers & Geosciences entitled "Charting taxonomic knowledge through o...
Friday, July 04, 2008

How to succeed in evolutionary biology, without really trying

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Lab Times has an interesting article by Ralf Neumann that analyses Europe's publications in evolutionary biology for the period 1996-2...
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iSpecies clones, and taxonomic intelligence

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Mauro Cavalcanti has released e-Species , "a taxonomically intelligent biodiversity search engine" written in Python that mimics m...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

The end of science, and the end of taxonomy

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Mauro Cavalcanti brought Chris Anderson's The End of Theory article in Wired to my attention, part of the July issue on "The End o...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

PhyQL

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Hasan Jamil has released PhyQL , a visual system for querying phylogenetic information. To quote from the web site: Popular phylogenetic da...
Friday, June 20, 2008

tvwidget released

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I've put the first version of "tvwidget" into Google Code . This is a HTML-only widget to display large evolutionary trees (yo...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

From PDFs to Google Earth

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I've added a service to bioGUID that takes a PDF and attempts to extract latitude and longitude data from the PDF, returning those co-o...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

More GBIF errors, courtesy of FishBase

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Resurrecting iSpecies after moving it to a new folder on one of my servers, and browsing popular searches, I keep coming across clearly err...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Catalogue of Life as a treemap

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I have an "on again/off again" relationship with treemaps. Lately, I've been taking another look, partly inspired by Björn Eng...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Stained Glass

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Something a little different, my dad's work features in the Winter 2008 issue of Art News New Zealand by Rob Garrett, who has a copy of...
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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...