Friday, July 20, 2018

Signals from Singapore: NGS barcoding, generous interfaces, the return of faunas, and taxonomic burden

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Earlier this year I stopped over in Singapore, home of the spectacular "supertrees" in the Garden by the Bay . The trip was a hol...
Thursday, July 05, 2018

GBIF at 1 billion - what's next?

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How to cite: Page, R. (2018). GBIF at 1 billion - what's next? https://doi.org/10.59350/d8dwz-3v524 GBIF has reached 1 billion occurre...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Liberating links between datasets using lightweight data publishing: an example using IPNI and the taxonomic literature

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I've written a short paper entitled "Liberating links between datasets using lightweight data publishing: an example using plant n...
Monday, June 04, 2018

Towards a biodiversity token: Bitcoin, FinTech, and a radical suggestion for the GBIF Challenge

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First off, let me say that what follows is a lot of arm waving to try and obscure how little I understand what I'm talking about. I'...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

World Taxonomists and Systematists via ORCID

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David Shorthouse ( @dpsspiders ) makes some very cool things, and his latest project World Taxonomists & Systematists is a great exampl...

2018 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge now open

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Last year I finished my four-year stint as Chair of the GBIF Science Committee. During that time, partly as a result of my urging, GBIF laun...

iSpecies meets Lifemap

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It's been a little quiet on this blog as I've been teaching, and spending a lot of time data wrangling and trying to get my head aro...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Guest post: The Not problem

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The following is a guest post by Bob Mesibov . Nico Franz and Beckett Sterner created a stir last year with a preprint in bioRxiv about ...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Towards a digital natural history museum

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These notes are the result of a few events I've been involved in the last couple of months, including TDWG 2017 in Ottawa, a thesis def...
Tuesday, December 05, 2017

Blue Planet II, the BBC, and the Semantic Web: a tale of lessons forgotten and opportunities lost

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David Attenborough’s latest homage to biodiversity, Blue Planet II is, as always, visually magnificent. Much of its impact derives from the...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Exploring images in the Biodiversity Literature Repository

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A post by on the Plaza blog Expanded access to images in the Biodiversity Literature Repository has prompted me to write up a little toy I ...
Friday, October 06, 2017

Notes on finding georeferenced sequences in GenBank

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Notes on how many georeferenced DNA sequences there are in GenBank, and how many could potentially be georeferenced. BCT Bacterial sequen...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

TDWG 2017: thoughts on day 3

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Day three of TDWG 2017 highlighted some of the key obstacles facing biodiversity informatics. After a fun series of "wild ideas"...

Bitcoin, biodiversity, and micropayments for open data

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I gave a "wild ideas" talk at TDWG17 suggesting that the biodiversity community use Bitcoin to make micropayments to use data. ...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

TDWG 2017: thoughts on day 1

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Some random notes on the first day of TDWG 2017. First off, great organisation with the first usable conference calendar app that I've s...