Monday, October 25, 2010

Are names really the key to the big new biology?

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David ("Paddy") Patterson, Jerry Cooper, Paul Kirk, Rich Pyle, and David Remsen have published an article in TREE entitled "N...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Mendeley, BHL, and the "Bibliography of Life"

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One of my hobby horses is the disservice taxonomic databases do their users by not linking to original scientific literature. Typically, tax...
Friday, October 08, 2010

Towards an interactive DjVu file viewer for the BHL

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The bulk of the Biodiversity Heritage Library's content is available as DjVu files, which package together scanned page images and OCR t...
Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Scripting Life

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Not really a blog post, more a note to self. If I ever did get around to writing a book again, I think Scripting Life would be a great titl...

PLoS Biodiversity Hub launches

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The PLoS Biodiversity Hub has launched today. There's a PLoS blog post explaining the background to the project, as well as a summary ...
Friday, October 01, 2010

Replicating and forking data in 2010: Catalogue of Life and CouchDB

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Time (just) for a Friday folly. A couple of days ago the latest edition of the Catalogue of Life (CoL) arrived in my mailbox in the form of...
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...