Wednesday, July 22, 2020

DNA barcode browser

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Motivated by the 2020 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge I've put together an interactive DNA barcode browser. The app is live at https://dna-barco...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Taxonomic concepts for dummies

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[Work in progress] The "dummy" in this case is me. I'm trying to make sense of how to model taxa, especially in the context ...

Persistent Identifiers: A demo and a rant

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This morning, as part of a webinar on persistent identifiers, I gave a live demo of a little toy to demonstrate linking together museum and ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Darwin Core Million now twice a year

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The following is a guest post by Bob Mesibov . The first Darwin Core Million closed on 31 March with no winner. Since I'm seeing bet...
Thursday, July 09, 2020

Zootaxa has no impact factor

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So this happened: Stunning misinterpretation by @Clarivate / @WebOfScience in their decision to suppress citation counts for all papers i...

Lists of species don't matter: thoughts on "Principles for creating a single authoritative list of the world’s species"

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Garnett et al. recently published a paper in PLoS Biology that starts with the sentence "Lists of species matter": Garnett, S. T...
Wednesday, July 01, 2020

Diddling with semantic data: linking natural history collections to the scientific literature

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A couple of weeks ago I was grumpy on the Internet (no, really) and complained about museum websites and how their pages often lacked vital ...
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. ...