Saturday, May 30, 2009

e-Biosphere 09 Challenge slides

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I've put the slides for my e-Biosphere 09 challenge entry on SlideShare. e-Biosphere '09 Challenge View more OpenOffice presentati...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Visualizing the Evolutionary Tree of Life

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Over on the EOL blog is a summary of a meeting Visualizing the Evolutionary Tree of Life . This sounds like it was a fun meeting, but part o...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

e-Biosphere Challenge: visualising biodiversity digitisation in real time

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e-Biosphere '09 kicks off next week, and features the challenge : Prepare and present a real-time demonstration during the days of the...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Dryad, DOIs, and why data matters more than journal articles

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For the last two days I've been participating in a NESCent meeting on Dryad , a "repository of data underlying scientific publicati...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Nomenclators + digitised literature = fail

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Continuing with RSS feeds, I've now added wrappers around IPNI that will return for each plant family a list of names added to the IPNI...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Integrating and displaying data using RSS

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Although I'd been thinking of getting the wiki project ready for e-Biosphere '09 as a challenge entry , lately I've been playi...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

H1N1 Swine Flu TimeMap

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Tweets from @ attilacsordas and @stew alerted me to the Google Map of the H1N1 Swine Flu outbreak by niman . Ryan Schenk commented : ...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

GBIF and Handles: admitting that "distributed" begets "centralized"

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The problem with this ... is that my personal and unfashionable observation is that “distributed” begets “centralized.” For every distribute...
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CrossRef fail - at least we're not alone...

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CrossRef has been having some issues with it's OpenURL resolver over the weekend, which means that attempts to retrieve metadata from a...
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Monday, April 20, 2009

Connotea tags

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For fun I quickly programmed a little tool for bioGUID that makes use of Connotea's web api . When an article is displayed, the page loa...
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Accessing specimens using TAPIR or, why do we make this so hard?

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OK, second rant of the day. One of my favourite online specimen databases is AntWeb . For a while the ability to harvest data from this data...
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Semantic Publishing: towards real integration by linking

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PLoS Computational Biolgy has recently published "Adventures in Semantic Publishing: Exemplar Semantic Enhancements of a Research Arti...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

bioGUID manuscript

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Finally submitted (two days late) a manuscript for the BMC Bioinformatics Special Issue on Biodiversity Informatics organised by Neil Sark...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

LSIDs, disaster or opportunity

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OK, really must stop avoiding what I'm supposed to be doing (writing a paper, already missed the deadline), but continuing the theme of ...
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Short URLs

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Short URLs have been a topic of discussion recently, perhaps sparked by the article URL Shorteners: Which Shortening Service Should You Use?...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

LSIDs, to proxy or not to proxy?

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The LSID discussion rumbles on (see my earlier post ). One issue that has re-emerged is the use of HTTP proxies in RDF documents. In a recen...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

LSIDs, HTTP URI, Linked Data, and bioGUID

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The LSID discussion has flared up (again) on the TDWG mailing lists . This discussion keeps coming around (I've touched on it here and ...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Patenting biodiversity tools

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The e-Biosphere online forum has a topic entitled Why open source code? Why not patented softwares? . This thread was started by Mauri Åhlbe...
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e-Biosphere Challenge

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The e-Biosphere meeting in London June 1-3 has announced a The e-Biosphere 09 Informatics Challenge : Prepare and present a real-time demons...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

Talk Science Podcast

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