Friday, October 28, 2011

Sherborn presentation on Open Taxonomy

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Here is my presentation from today's Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond meeting. Open tax...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Linking taxonomic names to literature: beyond digitised 5×3 index cards

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Tomorrow is the Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond meeting. It should be an interesting gathe...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Final thoughts on TDWG RDF challenge

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Quick final comment on the TDWG Challenge - what is RDF good for? . As I noted in the previous post , Olivier Rovellotti ( @orovellotti ) an...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Reflections on the TDWG RDF "Challenge"

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This is a follow up to my previous post TDWG Challenge - what is RDF good for? where I'm being, frankly, a pain in the arse, and asking...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

TDWG Challenge - what is RDF good for?

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Last month, feeling particularly grumpy, I fired off an email to the TDWG-TAG mailing list with the subject Lobbing grenades: a challenge ....
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

DeepDyve - renting scientific articles

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Bit late, but I stumbled across DeepDyve , which provides rental access to scientific papers for as little as $0.99. The pitch to publishers...
Thursday, October 06, 2011

My favourite Apple moment

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In light of today's news here's my favourite Mac, the original iBook. In many ways, it wasn't the machine itself so grabbed me ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Taxonomy - crisis, what crisis?

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Following on from the last post How many species are there, and why do we get two very different answers from same data? another interestin...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

How many species are there, and why do we get two very different answers from same data?

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Two papers estimating the total number of species have recently been published, one in the open access journal PLoS Biology : Camilo Mora, D...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Taylor and Francis Online breaks DOIs - lots of DOIs

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DOIs are meant to be the gold standard in bibliographic identifier for article. They are not supposed to break. Yet some publishers seem to ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Linked data that isn't: the failings of RDF

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OK, a bit of hyperbole in the morning. One of the goals of RDF is to create the Semantic Web, an interwoven network of data seamlessly linke...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Orwellian metadata: making journals disappear

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I've been spending a lot of time recently mapping bibliographic citations for taxonomic names to digital identifiers (such as DOIs). Thi...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Anchoring Biodiversity Information: from Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond

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Charles Davies Sherborn, the Natural History Museum's 'magpie with a card-index mind’ Next month I'll be speaking in London at T...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

I think I now "get" the Encylopedia of Life

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The Encylopedia of Life (EOL) has been relaunched, with a new look and much social media funkiness. I've been something of an EOL scept...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Phantom articles: why Mendeley needs to make duplication transparent

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Browsing Mendeley I found the following record: http://www.mendeley.com/research/description-larva/ . This URL is for a paper Costa, J. M., ...

Rethinking citation matching

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Some quick half-baked thoughts on citation matching. One of the things I'd really like to add to BioStor is the ability to parse articl...

More BHL app ideas

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Following on from my previous post on BHL apps and a Twitter discussion in which I appealed for a "sexier" interface for BHL (to ...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Duplicate DOIs for the same article: alias DOIs, who knew?

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As part of a project to map taxonomic citations to bibliographic identifiers I'm tackling strings like this (from the ION record urn:lsi...
Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Suggested apps for BHL's Life and Literature Code Challenge

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Since I won't be able to be at the Biodiversity Heritage Library's Life and Literature meeting I thought I'd share some ideas f...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Tree of Life 0.1 - annotating the NCBI taxonomy

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Last week I was at the NSF "Assembling, Visualising and Analysing the Tree of Life" Ideas Lab, run by KnowInnovation.com/ . It was...