Friday, August 29, 2008

Turning Japanese: EUC-JP, UTF-8, and percent-encoding

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In case I forget how to do this, and as an example of how easy it is to get sucked into a black hole of programming micro-details, I spent a...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Perceptive Pixel Taxonomy Demo

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Found this while Googling. Demo by Perceptive Pixel of browsing the ITIS classification using their multi-touch technology. I want one...
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Vince Smith wins 2008 Ebbe Nielsen Prize

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As spotted by dechronization , GBIF has made public that Vince Smith has won the 2008 Ebbe Nielsen Prize . The award "recognises a rese...
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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Reasons text mining will fail. I. UTM Grid References and GenBank accession numbers

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OMG. Playing with extracting identifiers from text, I have a regular expression for GenBank accession numbers that looks something like this...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Elsevier Grand Challenge

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Elsevier recently announced the 10 semi-finalists for their Grand Challenge . To my consternation, I'm one of them. I wrote a proposal e...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

NCBI visualisations I - Genbank Timemap

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Time for some fun. In between some tedious text mining I've been meaning to explore some visualisations of NCBI. Here's the first, i...
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ZooKeys, DOIs, Open Access, and RSS, but why?

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ZooKeys (ISSN 1313-2970) is a new journal for the rapid publication of taxonomic names, rather like Zootaxa . On first glance it has some n...
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Monday, August 18, 2008

DOIs, the good news and the bad news

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The good news is that the merger of Blackwell's digital content with that of Wiley's has not affected the DOIs, which is exactly as...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

Freebase Parallax

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Freebase Parallax is a very cool interface to Freebase . Freebase Parallax: A new way to browse and explore data from David Huynh on ...

DBpedia, and integrating taxonomy with the rest of the linked data world

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While biodiversity informatics putters along, generating loads of globally unique identifiers that nobody else uses, perhaps it's time t...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

BNCOD 2008 Workshop

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The proceedings of the BNCOD 2008 Workshop on "Biodiversity Informatics: challenges in modelling and managing biodiversity knowledge...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

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Shameless plug. One of my former PhD students, Katie Davis, is second author on "Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

Spida of Love

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Systematics makes The Colbert Report . The paper describing Aptostichus stephencolbertio by Jason Bond and Amy Stockman has been published...
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 ...