Monday, June 08, 2020

Towards visualising classifications from Wikidata

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These are simply notes to myself about taxonomic classifications in Wikidata. Classifications in Wikidata can be complex and are often not...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Making sense of how Wikidata models taxonomy

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Given my renewed enthusiasm for Wikidata, I'm trying to get my head around the way that Wikidata models biological taxonomy. As a first ...
Friday, April 17, 2020

A planetary computer for Earth

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Came across Microsoft's announcement of a "A planetary computer for a sustainable future through the power of AI" , complete ...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus

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I haven't posted on iPhylo for a while, and since my last post back in January things have obviously changed quite a bit. In late Januar...
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...