Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Text mining for museum specimen identifiers

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Text mining for museum specimen identifiers #TDM http://t.co/BsFXSAZJpK cc @rdmpage @robgural thoughts? — Ross Mounce (@rmounce) May 19,...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

The value of ION to GBIF

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This a quick writeup of an analysis I did to make the case that the list of names held by the Index of Organism Names (ION) (part of Thomso...
Friday, May 08, 2015

Putting some bite into the Bouchout Declaration

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@rdmpage @BioDivLibrary @bouchoutdec Why aren't you creating an iphylo blog what metrics you expect to see so you will not be disappo...
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, ...