Monday, August 31, 2009

Comparing Wikipedia and Mammal Species of the World classifications

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Continuing the saga of making sense of the mammal classification in Wikipedia, I've done a quick comparison with the Mammal Species of t...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Mammal tree from Wikipedia

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Following on from my previous post about visualising the mammalian classification in Wikipedia , I've extracted the largest component fr...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Visualising the Wikipedia classification of mammals

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As part of my on-going experiments with Wikipedia as a repository of taxonomic information, I've extracted mammal pages from Wikipedia. ...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Scientific citations in Wikipedia

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While thinking about measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles by counting the number of times they cite external literature, and converse...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

To wiki or not to wiki?

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What follows are some random thoughts as I try and sort out what things I want to focus on in the coming days/weeks. If you don't want t...
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...