Monday, December 19, 2011

Towards an interactive taxonomic article: displaying an article from ZooKeys

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One of the things I keep revisiting is the way we display scientific articles. Apart from Nature's excellent iPhone and iPad apps, most...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Exporting data from Australian Faunal Directory on CouchDB

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Quick note to self about exporting data from my Australian Faunal Directory on CouchDB project. To export data from a CouchDB view you can ...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

DNA Barcoding, the Darwin Core Triplet, and failing to learn from past mistakes

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Given various discussions about identifiers, dark taxa, and DNA barcoding that have been swirling around the last few weeks, there's one...
Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Google doesn't like BioStor anymore

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According to Google Analytics BioStor has experienced a big drop in traffic since the start of October: At one point I'm getting someth...
Monday, December 05, 2011

These are my species - finding the taxonomic names I published using Mendeley

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The latest addition to my mapping of taxonomic names to the literature ( http://iphylo.org/~rpage/itaxon/ ) is the ability for authors with ...
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...