Friday, December 16, 2022

David Remsen

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I heard yesterday from Martin Kalfatovic (BHL) that David Remsen has died. Very sad news. It's starting to feel like iPhylo might end up...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

The ideal taxonomic journal

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This is just some random notes on an “ideal” taxonomic journal, inspired in part by some recent discussions on “turbo-taxonomy” (e.g., https...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

DNA barcoding as intergenerational transfer of taxonomic knowledge

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I tweeted about this but want to bookmark it for later as well. The paper “A molecular-based identification resource for the arthropods of ...
Thursday, September 08, 2022

Local global identifiers for decentralised wikis

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I've been thinking a bit about how one could use a Markdown wiki-like tool such as Obsidian to work with taxonomic data (see earlier pos...
Thursday, September 01, 2022

Does anyone cite taxonomic treatments?

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Taxonomic treatments have come up in various discussions I'm involved in, and I'm curious as to whether they are actually being use...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Can we use the citation graph to measure the quality of a taxonomic database?

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More arm-waving notes on taxonomic databases. I've started to add data to ChecklistBank and this has got me thinking about the issue of...
Monday, August 22, 2022

Linking taxonomic names to the literature

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Just some thoughts as I work through some datasets linking taxonomic names to the literature. In the diagram above I've tried to capt...
Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Papers citing data that cite papers: CrossRef, DataCite, and the Catalogue of Life

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Quick notes to self following on from a conversation about linking taxonomic names to the literature. Is there a way to turn those links in...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Round trip from identifiers to citations and back again

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Note to self (basically rewriting last year's Finding citations of specimens ). Bibliographic data supports going from identifier to c...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Thoughts on TreeBASE dying(?)

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@rvosa is Naturalis no longer hosting Treebase? https://t.co/MBRgcxaBmR — Hilmar Lapp (@hlapp) May 10, 2022 So it looks like TreeBASE i...
Thursday, April 07, 2022

Obsidian, markdown, and taxonomic trees

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Returning to the subject of personal knowledge graphs Kyle Scheer has an interesting repository of Markdown files that describe academic di...
Tuesday, February 08, 2022

Duplicate DOIs (again)

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This blog post provides some background to a recent tweet where I expressed my frustration about the duplication of DOIs for the same artic...
Thursday, February 03, 2022

Deduplicating bibliographic data

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There are several instances where I have a collection of references that I want to deduplicate and merge. For example, in Zootaxa has no imp...
Sunday, January 02, 2022

Large graph viewer experiments

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I keep returning to the problem of viewing large graphs and trees, which means my hard drive has accumulated lots of failed prototypes. Insp...
Monday, December 20, 2021

GraphQL for WikiData (WikiCite)

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I've released a very crude GraphQL endpoint for WikiData. More precisely, the endpoint is for a subset of the entities that are of inter...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

The Business of Extracting Knowledge from Academic Publications

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Markus Strasser ( @mkstra write a fascinating article entitled "The Business of Extracting Knowledge from Academic Publications" ...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Revisiting RSS to monitor the latest taxonomic research

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Over a decade ago RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) was attracting a lot of interest as a way to integrate data across v...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Problems with Plazi parsing: how reliable are automated methods for extracting specimens from the literature?

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The Plazi project has become one of the major contributors to GBIF with some 36,000 datasets yielding some 500,000 occurrences (see Plazi...
Thursday, October 07, 2021

Reflections on "The Macroscope" - a tool for the 21st Century?

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This is a guest post by Tony Rees . It would be difficult to encounter a scientist, or anyone interested in science, who is not familiar ...