Monday, March 23, 2020

Darwin Core Million promo: best and worst

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The following is a guest post by Bob Mesibov . There's still time (to 31 March ) to enter a dataset in the 2020 Darwin Core Million , ...
Tuesday, March 03, 2020

The 2020 Darwin Core Million

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The following is a guest post by Bob Mesibov . You're feeling pretty good about your institution's collections data. After careful...
Wednesday, January 08, 2020

ORCID serves schema.org linked data via content negotiation - who knew?

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Just a note that ORCID serves data using terms from schema.org , and has done for a while (since April 2018 ), but somehow I missed this. ...
Friday, December 20, 2019

GBIF metagenomics and metacrap

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Yes, this is a clickbait headline, and yes, it may seem like shooting fish in a barrel to complain about crappy data in GBIF, but my point...
Friday, December 13, 2019

The Semantic Web revisited: thoughts on SWAT4HCLS

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This week I attended the SWAT4(HC)LS (Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Healthcare and Life Sciences) meeting in Edinburgh. Although...
Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Thoughts on Biodiversity Next

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted on iPhylo. Since returning from a fun and productive time in Australia there have been a bunch of profe...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Ozymandias in Canberra

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On Tuesday I was in Canberra to visit the Australian National Insect Collection at CSIRO and give a talk on knowledge graphs. David Yeates,...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Notes on collections, knowledge graphs, and Semantic Web browsers

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While working with linked data and ways to explore and visualise information, I keep coming back to the Haystack project , which is now over...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Messages from Melbourne: Towards linking all the things

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I'm doing some work with Nicole Kearney ( @nicolekearney ) at the Melbourne Museum on the general theme of "linking all the thin...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Frankenplace, geospatial search, and discrete global grid systems

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Quick note on Frankenplace , a cool search tool that displays the geographic distribution of documents that match the user's query as...