Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Programming with Glitch: microservices and serverless computing

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Yes, this post is indeed an attempt to fit as many buzzwords that I don't really understand into the title. I've been playing around...

Querying Wikidata

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Over 7 million #SPARQL queries/day in @wikidata #WikiCite 👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/l2I6IcnGJj — WikiCite (@Wikicite) May 23, 2017 For my o...

Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life"

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Last week I was at WikiCite 2017 , a fascinating three day event in Vienna. Wikicite is "a proposal to build a bibliographic database ...
Friday, March 24, 2017

This is what phylodiversity looks like

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Following on from earlier posts exploring how to map DNA barcodes and putting barcodes into GBIF it's time to think about taking advan...

Notes for WikiCite 2017: Wikispecies reference parsing

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In preparation for WikiCite 2017 I'm looking more closely at extracting bibliographic information from Wikispecies. The WikiCite proj...
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...