Friday, September 24, 2010

Mendeley Connect

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When I first launched BioStor (an article finding tool built on the top of the ( Biodiversity heritage Library ) I wanted people to be able...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

GeoCouch

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@ mikeal a little tedious. you can take OSM and then convert it to SHP and then http://github.com/maxogden/shp2geocouch less than a minute ...

Finding scientific articles in a large digital archive: BioStor and the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Yesterday I uploaded a manuscript to Nature Precedings that describes the inner workings of BioStor . The title is "Finding scientific ...
Monday, September 13, 2010

BHL and the iPad

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@ elyw I'd leave bookmarking to 3rd party, e.g. Mendeley. #bhlib specific issues incl. displaying DjVu files, and highlighting taxon n...
Friday, September 10, 2010

Touching citations on the iPad

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Quick demo of the mockup I alluded to in the previous post . Here's a screen shot of the article "PhyloExplorer: a web server to va...

CouchDB, Mendeley, and what I really want in an iPad article viewer

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Playing with @ couchdb , starting to think of the Mendeley API as a read/write JSON store, and having a reader app built on that... less tha...
Friday, September 03, 2010

Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: browsing articles

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In previous articles I've looked at how various apps display scientific articles. The apps I looked at were: PLoS Reader Nature Papers M...
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 ...