Thursday, May 26, 2016

Thoughts on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Given that Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) all share the goal of making information free, open, and accessi...

Notes on current and future projects

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I'll be taking a break shortly, so I thought I'd try to gather some thoughts on a few projects/ideas that I'm working on. These ...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Scott Federhen

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Awoke this morning to the sad news (via Scott Miller) that Scott Federhen of the NCBI had died. Anyone using the NCBI taxonomy is a benefic...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Notes on next steps for the million DNA barcodes map

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Some notes to self about future directions for the "million DNA barcodes map" http://iphylo.org/~rpage/bold-map/ . At the mome...

State of open knowledge about the World's Plants

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Kew has released a new report today, entitled the State of the World's Plants, complete with it's own web site https://stateofthewor...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Possible project: Biodiversity dashboard

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Despite the well deserved scepticism about dashboards voiced by Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern (see Mission Control: A History of the Urb...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Searching GBIF by drawing on a map

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One of my frustrations with the GBIF portal is that it is hard to drill down and search in a specific area. You have to zoom in and then cli...
Friday, April 15, 2016

GBIF and impact: CrossRef, FundRef, and Altmetric

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For anyone doing research or involved in scientific infrastructure, demonstrating the "impact" of those activities is becoming inc...

The Zika virus, GBIF, and the missing mosquitoes

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One of GBIF's goals is to provide up to date, comprehensive data on the distribution of species. Although GBIF's taxonomy and geogr...

The Biodiversity Heritage Library at 10: Let's talk impact interview by @UDCMRK

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As part of BHL's "Celebrating 10 years of inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge" at the NHM and K...
Friday, April 08, 2016

Guest post: 10 explanations for messy data, by Bob Mesibov

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The follow is a guest post by Bob Mesibov , who has contributed to iPhylo before . Like many iPhylo readers, I deal with large, pre-existi...

Towards a biodiversity knowledge graph now in RIO

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After experimenting with a dynamic, online version of my notes "Towards a biodiversity knowledge graph" I've published a stati...
Friday, March 18, 2016

The Plant List, GBIF, and the primary literature

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TL;DR; The Plant List is now in GBIF http://doi.org/10.15468/btkum2 . Readers of this blog may recall that I've had a somewhat jaundi...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Towards a biodiversity knowledge graph

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TL;DR; In order to build a usable biodiversity knowledge graph we should adopt JSON-LD for biodiversity data, develop reconciliation service...
Thursday, March 03, 2016

Cisco Pit Stop: Digitising the Natural History Museum’s collections

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Last week (25-26 February) I was in London for CISCO Pit Stop event. Thursday evening was at the Natural History Museum where I gave a talk...

iSpecies meets TreeBASE

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I'm continuing to play with the new version of iSpecies , seeing just how far one can get by simply grabbing JSON from various sources a...
Wednesday, February 03, 2016

Bootstrapping the biodiversity knowledge graph with JSON-LD

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@sckottie @rdmpage @christgendreau Three small, early adopting projects should show expected network of synergies if JSON-LD actually use...
Monday, January 25, 2016

iSpecies is back: mashing up species data

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A decade ago (OMG, that can't be right, an actual decade ago) I created "iSpecies", a simple little tool to mashup a variety o...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Surfacing the deep data of taxonomy

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My paper "Surfacing the deep data of taxonomy" (based on a presentation I gave in 2011) has appeared in print as part to a special...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Will JSON, NoSQL, and graph databases save the Semantic Web?

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OK, so the title is pure click bait, but here's the thing. It seems to me that the Semantic Web as classically conceived (RDF/XML, SPARQ...