Monday, August 17, 2009

Nexus Data Editor and Windows Vista

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Sometimes it's just amazing/frightening how long a piece of software remains useful. I wrote Nexus Data Editor (NDE) in the late 1990...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

GBIF and Linked Data

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At the end of day two of the GBIF LSID-GUID Task Group I put together this crude diagram to summarise some of the possible links between bi...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Wikispecies RSS feed

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Following on from my previous post about Wikispecies (which generated some discussion on TAXACOM ) I've played some more with Wikispeci...
Friday, August 07, 2009

Wikispecies is not a database

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This post was prompted by Stephen Thorpe's post on TAXACOM about Wikispecies in which he wrote (in a thread discussing Roger Hyam'...
Friday, July 24, 2009

Index Fungorum

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I've added Index Fungorum to the list of RSS feeds that I generate at bioguid.info/rss . The feed uses the Index Fungorum web services ...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Zotero: creating bibliographies in the cloud

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Lately I've become more and more interested in moving data off my machine(s) and into the cloud. I'm keen to do this partly to avoid...

How to publish a journal RSS feed

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This morning I posted this tweet : Harvesting Nuytsia RSS http://science.dec.wa.gov.a... Non-trivial as links are not to individual article...

Using Google Spreadsheets and RSS feeds to edit IPNI

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One thing I find myself doing a lot is creating Excel spreadsheets and filling them will lists of taxonomic names and bibliographic referenc...
Friday, July 10, 2009

NCBI RDF

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Following on from the last post , I've now set up a trivial NCBI RDF service at bioguid.info/taxonomy/ (based on the ISSN resolver I r...

NCBI taxonomy, TDWG vocabularies, and RDF

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Lately I've been returning to playing with RDF and triple stores. This is a serious case of déjà vu, as two blogs I've now abandoned...
Monday, June 29, 2009

Wikipedia taxonomy, the good, the bad, and the very ugly

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In the previous post I suggested that a productive way to meet EOL's goal of a web page per taxon would be to build upon Wikipedia, rat...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

EOL, Wikipedia, TDWG, LinkedData, and the Vision Thing

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Time for more half-baked ideas. There's been a lot of discussion on Twitter about EOL, Linked Data (sometimes abbreviated LOD), and Wiki...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Visualising taxonomic classifications using SpaceTrees

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The problem of displaying large taxonomic classifications on a web page continues to be an on again-off again obsession. My latest experimen...
Friday, June 05, 2009

ChrisFreeland.com: #ebio09, silverbacks, & haiku

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Chris Freeland has written a thoughtful summary of his experiences of the two-day closed session to create a road map for biodiversity infor...

Taxonomy on a hard disk

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This post is likely to seem somewhat off the wall, given the rush to getting everything in the cloud, but it's Friday, so let's give...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

e-Biosphere '09: Twitter rules, and all that

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So, e-Biosphere '09 is over (at least for the plebs like me, the grown ups get to spend two days charting the future of biodiversity in...
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...