iPhylo

Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics. For more ranty and less considered opinions, see my Twitter feed.
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Friday, December 23, 2016

Taxonomic name timelines for BHL

Given a big corpus of literature one of the fun things to do is look at how the use of a term has changed over time. When did people first u...

Thursday, December 22, 2016

DNA barcoding taxonomy now in GBIF

Following on from adding DNA barcodes to GBIF I've now uploaded a taxonomic classification of DNA barcode BINs (Barcode Index Numbers)...

Thursday, December 08, 2016

iBOL DNA barcodes in GBIF

I've uploaded all the COI barcodes in the iBOL public data dumps into GBIF. This is an update of an earlier project that uploaded a smal...

Thursday, November 24, 2016

The Semantic Web made fun: d3sparql

Continuing my on-again off-again relationship with the Semantic Web, I stumbled across a cool approach to visualising the results of SPARQL...

Monday, November 14, 2016

Copyright and the Use of Images as Biodiversity Data

Willi Egloff, Donat Agosti, Puneet Kishor, David Patterson, and Jeremy A. Miller have published an interesting preprint entitled “Copyright ...

Saturday, November 12, 2016

EOL Traitbank JSON-LD is broken

One of the most interesting aspects of EOL is "TraitBank" , which has been described in a recent paper: Cynthia S. Parr, Katja ...

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