Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Looking up specimen codes in GBIF using Google Spreadsheet

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Playing with the my "material examined" tool I've been working on, I wondered whether I could make use of it in, say, a sprea...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge finalists announced

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The six finalists for the GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge have been announced by GBIF : “The creativity and ambition displayed by the finalists...

Linking specimen codes to GBIF

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I've put together a working demo of some code I've been working on to discover GBIF records that correspond to museum specimen codes...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge submissions: judging begins

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The GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge has closed and we have 23 submissions for the jury to evaluate . There's quite a range of project types ...
Friday, February 20, 2015

More examples of data duplication and loss in GBIF: Australian bats in bits

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Quick notes on another example of data duplication in GBIF. I'm in the process of building a tool to map specimen codes to GBIF records,...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Post publication review on PubPeer

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PubPeer is a web site where people can discuss published articles, anonymously if they prefer. I finally got a chance to play with it a few...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Annotating GBIF, from datasets to nanopublications

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Below I sketch what I believe is a straightforward way GBIF could tackle the issue of annotating and cleaning its data. It continues a serie...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

GeoJSON and geophylogenies

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For the last few weeks I've been working on a little project to display phylogenies on web-based maps such as OpenStreetMap and Google M...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Bitcoin, Xanadu, Ted Nelson, and the web that wasn't

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A couple of articles in the tech press got me thinking this morning about Bitcoin, Ted Nelson, Xanadu, and the web that wasn't . The art...
Friday, January 09, 2015

GBIF, biodiversity informatics and the "platform rant"

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Each year about this time, as I ponder what to devote my time on in the coming year, I get exasperated and frustrated that each year will be...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

I'm worried about the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)

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One of my guilty pleasures on a Sunday morning is browsing new content on the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) . Indeed, so addicted am I...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Linking data from the NHM portal with content in BHL

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One reason I'm excited by the launch of the NHM data portal is that it opens up opportunities to link publications about specimens i th...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

The Natural History Museum launches their data portal

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The Natural History Museum has released their data portal ( http://data.nhm.ac.uk/ ). As of now it contains 2,439,827 of the Museum's 80...

Is DNA barcoding dead?

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On a recent trip to the Natural History Museum, London, the subject of DNA barcoding came up, and I got the clear impression that people at ...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Guest post: Top 10 species names and what they mean

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The following is a guest post by Bob Mesibov . The i4Life project has very kindly liberated Catalogue of Life (CoL) data from its database, ...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge

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The GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is open! From the official announcement The GBIF Secretariat has launched the inaugural GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Ch...
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...