Tuesday, August 31, 2010

ReaderMeter: what's in a name?

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Dario Taraborelli has released ReaderMeter , an elegant app built on top of the Mendeley API. You enter an author's name and it summari...

Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: iBooks

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Apple's iBooks app is an ePub and PDF reader, and one could write a lengthy article about its interface. However, in the context of thes...

Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: Mendeley

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Previously I've looked at the Nature , PLoS , and Papers apps, now it's the turn of the Mendeley iPad app. As before, this isn'...

Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: Papers

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Continuing the series of posts about reading scientific articles on the iPad, here are some quick notes on perhaps the most polished app I...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

On being open: Mendeley and open data versus open source

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Paulo Nuin, not the biggest fan of Mendeley wrote a blog post entitled Mendeley is going to be open source , in which he wrote: After exten...
Friday, August 27, 2010

Navigating the Encyclopedia of Life tree on the desktop and the iPhone

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This week seems to be API week. The Encyclopedia of Life API Beta Test has been out since August 12th. By comparison with the Mendeley API ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Mendeley API PHP client

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Following on from my earlier post about the Mendeley API, I've bundled up my code for OAuth access to the Mendeley API for anyone who...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Browsing a digital library using a map

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Every so often I revisit the idea of browsing a collection of documents (or specimens, or phylogenies) geographically. It's one thing to...

Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: the PLoS Reader

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Continuing on from my previous post Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: towards a universal article reader , here are some brief notes ...
Monday, August 23, 2010

TreeView X now on Google Code

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TreeView X , the open source version of TreeView , has been slowly suffering bit rot as C++ compilers and operating systems change. Every so...

Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: towards a universal article reader

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There are a growing number of applications for viewing scientific articles coming out for the iPhone and iPad. I'm toying with extending...
Monday, August 16, 2010

More on the Mendeley API

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After playing with the public API for Mendeley over the weekend (see Social citations: using Mendeley API to measure citation readership ) I...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Social citations: using Mendeley API to measure citation readership

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Quick note on an app I threw together using the Mendeley API that I discussed in the previous post . This app is crude, and given that the ...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Mendeley API: we'll bring the awesome if you bring the documentation

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Menedeley's API has been publicly launched at http://dev.mendeley.com/ , accompanied by various announcements such as: Mendeley's Re...
Friday, August 06, 2010

Extracting semantic goodness from Zootaxa articles

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I've just come back from a holiday in New Zealand, during which time I spent a morning chatting with Zhi-Qiang Zhang ( @Zootaxa , editor...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Flipboard and BHL

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Flipboard is a new application for the iPad that is pitching itself as a personalised social magazine. It's launch created a lot of buz...
Friday, July 09, 2010

Wikipedia paper out

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My short note on "Wikipedia as an Encyclopaedia of Life" has appeared in Organisms Diversity & Evolution ( doi:10.1007/s13127...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

Show me the trees! Playing with the TreeBASE API

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Being in an unusually constructive mood, I've spent the last couple of days playing with the TreeBASE II API , in an effort to find out ...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010

ZooKeys publishes articles of the future

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The open access taxonomic journal ZooKeys has published a special issue with four papers, each available in HTML, PDF, and XML, the later b...
Monday, July 05, 2010

iEvoBio: where to find out what went on

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Now that I'm back in Glasgow, albeit rather jet-lagged, time for a quick summary of the first iEvoBio meeting, held at the Evolution m...