Friday, July 31, 2015

Towards a new BioStor

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One of my pet projects is BioStor , which has been running since 2009 (gulp). BioStor extracts articles from the Biodiversity Heritage Libra...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Modelling taxonomic names in databases

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Quick notes on modelling taxonomic names in databases, as part of an ongoing discussion elsewhere about this topic. Simple model One mode...
Monday, July 27, 2015

The Biodiversity Data Journal is not machine readable

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In my ( previous post ) I discussed the potential for the Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) to be a venue for nano (or near-nano publications...

Nanopublications and annotation: a role for the Biodiversity Data Journal?

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I stumbled across this intriguing paper: Do, L., & Mobley, W. (2015, July 17). Single Figure Publications: Towards a novel alternative...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Purposeful Games and the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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. @BioDivLibrary Had a quick play of the Beanstalk OCR correction game http://t.co/fjUAFssKQu , lack of context is off-putting #bhlib — Ro...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Altmetrics, Disqus, GBIF, JSTOR, and annotating biodiversity data

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Browsing JSTOR's Global Plants database I was struck by the number of comments people have made on individual plant specimens. For exa...

Steve Baskauf on RDF and the "Rod Page Challenge"

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Steve Baskauf has concluded a thoughtful series of blog posts on RDF and biodiversity informatics with http://baskauf.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Biodiversity Data Journal data lost on the way to GBIF and EOL

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Two ongoing challenges in biodiversity informatics are getting data into a form that is usable, and linking that data across different proje...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Thoughts on ReCon 15: DOIs, GitHub, ORCID, altmetric, and transitive credit

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I spent last Friday and Saturday at ( Research in the 21st Century: Data, Analytics and Impact , hashtag #ReCon_15 ) in Edinburgh. Friday 1...

Visualising Geophylogenies in Web Maps Using GeoJSON

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I've published a short note on my work on geophylogenies and GeoJSON in PLoS Currents Tree of Life : Page R. Visualising Geophylogenies...
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...