Sunday, November 23, 2014

Automatically extracting possible taxonomic synonyms from the literature

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Quick notes on an experimental feature I've added to BioNames . It attempts to identify possible taxonomic synonyms by extracting pairs ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

On identifiers (again)

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I'm going to the TDWG Identifier Workshop this weekend, so I thought I'd jot down a few notes. The biodiversity informatics communi...
Thursday, October 02, 2014

BioStor and JournalMap: a geographic interface to articles from the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Great to see @JournalMap jump from ~11000 to ~17000 articles: http://t.co/bVarqDGGVU — Ken Mankoff (@mankoff) September 27, 2014 The recent...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Exploring the chameleon dataset: broken GBIF links and lack of georeferencing

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Following on from the discussion of the African chameleon data , I've started to explore Angelique Hjarding's data in more detail. T...
Monday, September 22, 2014

GBIF Science Committee Report slides #gb21

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Just back from GB21 , the GBIF Governing Board meeting (the first such meeting I've attended). It was in New Delhi, and this was also my...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

BioNames database can be downloaded

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My BioNames project has been going for over a year now , but I hadn't gotten around to providing bulk access to the data I've been ...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Geotagging stats for BioStor

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Note to self for upcoming discussion with JournalMap . As of Monday August 25th, BioStor has 106,617 articles comprising 1,484,050 BHL page...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Guest post: Response to the discussion on Red List assessments of East African chameleons

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This is guest post by Angelique Hjarding in response to discussion on this blog about the paper below. Hjarding, A., Tolley, K. A., & B...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Some design notes on modelling links between specimens and other kinds of data

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If we view biodiversity data as part of the "biodiversity knowledge graph" then specimens are a fairly central feature of that gra...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Seven percent of GBIF data is usable - quick thoughts on Hjarding et al. 2014

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Update: Angelique Hjarding and her co-authors have responded in a guest post on iPhylo. The quality and fitness for use of GBIF-mobilised da...
Monday, August 04, 2014

Realizing Lessons of the Last 20 Years: A Manifesto for Data Provisioning & Aggregation Services for the Digital Humanities (A Position Paper)

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I stumbled across this paper (found on the GBIF Public Library ): Oldman, D. , de Doerr, M., de Jong, G. , Norton, B. , & Wikman, T. (20...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The vision thing - it's all about the links

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@rdmpage @AlexHardisty @proibiosphere Well, take part in the process of clarification! — Pensoft Publishers (@Pensoft) June 10, 2014 I'...
Saturday, June 07, 2014

Using GBIF to measure the lag between collection and description of a species (oh dear)

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I'm adding more charts to the GBIF Chart tool , including some to explore the type status of specimens from the Solomon Islands. There a...
Friday, June 06, 2014

Finding citations using full text search

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Note to self on citation matching . Looking for this paper "Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas islands. Vol. I. Families from Asymmetr...

More on visualisation of GBIF data

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Following on from the previous post on visualising GBIF data , I've added some more interactivity. If you click on a pane in the treemap...
Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Visual analysis of GBIF data

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Tim Roberston and the ream at GBIF are working on some nice visualisations of GBIF data, and have made an early release available for viewin...
Monday, June 02, 2014

BioNames one year on

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It is almost a year to the day that I released BioNames , a database of "taxa, texts, and trees". This project was my entry in EOL...