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Bat names, ligatures, and fonts 26 Aug 2013 | 10:10 pm
Notes on fonts in trying decipher some bat names (and sort out some synonyms). It can be difficult to tell "œ" (o + e) from "æ" (a + e) in some texts. For example, BHL page 35549499 has "Chœrephon": ...
BioNames update - taxonomic name timelines 15 Aug 2013 | 10:05 pm
One feature I've always wanted to have in BioNames is a timeline of taxonomic names. ION has one (see here), but I wanted a way to go from the timeline to the actual publications. In other words, if, ...
Cluster maps, papaya plots, and the trouble with GBIF taxonomy 14 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
Continuing the theme of the failings of the GBIF classification I've been playing further with cluster maps to visualise the problem (see this earlier post for an introduction). Browsing through bats...
GBIF and open biodiversity data: what license should GBIF use? 5 Aug 2013 | 04:21 pm
GBIF is asking for views on how it should license of data in the GBIF network. The full consultation document is available from Google Drive and DropBox. GBIF is: ...seeking input from all GBIF Parti...
A use case for RDF in taxonomy 1 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
alt="RDF Resource Description Framework Icon"/> Readers of this blog will know that I'm sceptical about the current value of linked data and RDF in biodiversity informatics. But I came across an inter...
Augmenting ZooKeys bibliographic data to flesh out the citation graph 17 Jul 2013 | 07:25 pm
In a previous post (Learning from eLife: GitHub as an article repository) I discussed the advantages of an Open Access journal putting its article XML in a version-controlled repository like GitHub. I...
Using @IFTTT to create a Twitter stream for @EvolDir 15 Jul 2013 | 01:22 pm
Since 2009 I've been running a service that takes posts to the EvolDir mailing list and sends them to a Twitter stream at @EvolDir. This service was running on a local machine which has died. Rather t...
Learning from eLife: GitHub as an article repository 12 Jul 2013 | 02:35 pm
Playing with my eLife Lens-inspired article viewer and some recent articles from ZooKeys I regularly come across articles that are incorrectly marked up. As a quick reminder, my viewer takes the DOI f...
Barcode Index Number (BIN) System in DNA barcoding explained 11 Jul 2013 | 10:36 am
Quick note to highlight the following publication: Ratnasingham, S., & Hebert, P. D. N. (2013). A DNA-Based Registry for All Animal Species: The Barcode Index Number (BIN) System. (D. Fontaneto, Ed.)...
The challenge of semantically marking up articles (more thoughts on PLoS Hubs) 10 Jul 2013 | 03:01 pm
Here's a sketch of my vision of how to make something like the original PLoS Hubs vision (see The demise of the @PLoS Biodiversity Hub: what lessons can we learn? for background). In the blog post exp...
