Wednesday, February 15, 2017

New feature for BioStor: extracting literature cited from OCR text

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At present BioStor provides a simple display of an article extracted from BHL. You get the page images, and sometimes a map and an altmetri...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Displaying taxonomic classifications from Wikidata using d3js and SPARQL

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Following on from previous posts The Semantic Web made fun: d3sparql and The Biodiversity Heritage Library meets Wikidata via Wikispecies:...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

The Biodiversity Heritage Library meets Wikidata via Wikispecies: adding author identifiers to BioStor

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I've added an experimental feature to BioStor that uses data from Wikidata and Wikispecies to augment what information BioStor displays ...
Friday, December 23, 2016

Taxonomic name timelines for BHL

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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