Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Mapping names to literature: closing in on 250,000 names

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Following on from my earlier post Linking taxonomic names to literature: beyond digitised 5×3 index cards I've been slowly updating my ...

Towards the bibliography of life

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David King et al.'s paper "Towards the bibliography of life" http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.150.2167 has just appeared in ...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

BHL needs to engage with publishers (and EOL needs to link to primary literature)

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Browsing EOL I stumbled upon the recently described fish Protoanguilla palau , shown below in an image by rairaiken2011 : Two things struck...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Wikipedia History Flow tool now in GitHub

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Inspired by a comment on my post Visualising edit history of a Wikipedia page , the code I use to make history flow diagrams like the one be...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Apache mod_rewrite and question marks "?"

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Quick note to self in case I (inevitably) forget later. If you are using Apache mod_rewrite to make nice, clean URLs, and are also supportin...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Adding article-level metadata to BHL

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Recently I've been thinking about the best ways to make article-level metadata from BioStor more widely available. For example, for som...

Nature iPhone app clone in GitHub

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One thing I'm increasingly conscious of is that I've a lot of demos and toy projects hanging around and the code for most of these i...
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...