Saturday, March 21, 2009

Talk Science Podcast

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My British Library Talk Science presentation is now available online as a podcast .

London Calling Video

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Here's the video of my talk at the NHM (courtesy of Vince Smith). Going Digital - by Rod Page from Vince Smith on Vimeo .
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

London Calling

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Busy day yesterday, giving two talks, one at The Natural History Museum, one at the British Library. Slides for the NHM talk are below. Kare...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

Phylogenies in a wiki

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I'm slowing trying to get phylogenies into the wiki that I'm playing with . Here's an early example, the TreeBASE tree T6002 , f...

Photosynth for trees - supertrees revisited

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It's Friday, so time for some random, half-baked ideas. Imagine that we have a database of evolutionary trees, and these overlap for a s...
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Sunday, March 01, 2009

What would people want/expect from taxon searching on TreeBASE?

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Rutger Vos asked on Twitter "What would people want/expect from taxon searching on TreeBASE?" . This is a good question, and one ...
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Friday, February 27, 2009

Something's missing from taxonomic name vocabularies

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In the wiki examples I've been developing I've been trying to model names using the TDWG LSID vocabularies , particularly TaxonName ...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Clustering taxonomic names

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As part of my Quixotic attempt to construct a wiki of taxonomic names , I'm building a database of names and links. My current plan is t...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Talks at The Natural History Museum and British Library

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Vince Smith has produced a nice flyer for my forthcoming talk at The Natural History Museum on March 17th (11-12). It will be a busy day a...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Wiki demo

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Reading a recent TAXACOM thread ( Species Pages - purpose ) my sense is that some people are arguing that "species pages" would be...
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Monday, February 02, 2009

Wiki modelling - Part 4

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Another issue I'm trying to get my head around is how to deal with labels in phylogenies . These can be any number of things, such as Ge...
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Wiki modelling - Part 3

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I rather skirted around the notion of "taxonomic concepts" in the previous post , partly because it's easy to end up with tryi...
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Wiki modelling - Part 2

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Modelling taxa is a bit trickier. I've sketched my ideas for distinguishing name strings and taxonomic names earlier . That's the ea...
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Wiki modelling - Part 1

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Time to make some notes. I've been playing with using Sematic Mediawiki to create a database of taxonomic names, literature, specimens, ...

Thoughts on the Wellcome Interactive Tree of Life

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Last night BBC One aired David Attenborough's Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life , which featured a lovely "fly through" the ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Darwin on Twitter

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Well, not Darwin himself, exactly. The Evolution Directory (better known as "EvolDir") is a mailing list run by Brian Golding at...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Equivalent author names

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One problem I've encountered in building a bibliographic database is the different ways author names are written. For example, for paper...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Wikis versus Scratchpads

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Yes, I know this is ultimately a case of the "genius of and", but the more I play with the Semantic Mediawiki extension the more ...
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Friday, December 19, 2008

Code prettyfier

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Test of google-code-prettify : class Voila { public: // Voila static const string VOILA = "Voila"; // will not interfere wit...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Failure

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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm -- Winston Churchill I learnt today that my Elsevier Cha...
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