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iPhylo: Testing the GBIF taxonomy with the graph database Neo4J
http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2015/08/testing-gbif-taxonomy-with-graph.html
Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics. For more ranty and less considered opinions, see my Twitter feed. ISSN 2051-8188 View this blog in Magazine View. Friday, August 07, 2015. Testing the GBIF taxonomy with the graph database Neo4J. I've been playing with the graph database Neo4J. And the Open Tree of Life project use it in their tree machine. I created some GraphGists that explore various problems with the current GBIF taxonomy&...
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Other Bryozoan WWW Resources
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Bryozoa Information - General. NOTE: This list has not been updated for some time. Eventually, I will go through , adding, altering and removing as appropriate. Introduction to the Bryozoa. At The University of California Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology. Official registry of Zoological Nomenclature by ICZN. On the Open Tree of Life. On the Tree of Life. Searchable list of genera in zoology from 1758 to 1994. An Electronic Edition provided by the Smithsonian Institution. At Systema Naturae 2000. Among th...
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iPhylo: August 2015
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Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics. For more ranty and less considered opinions, see my Twitter feed. ISSN 2051-8188 View this blog in Magazine View. Friday, August 14, 2015. Possible project: NameStream - a stream of new taxonomic names. Yet another barely thought out project, although this one has some crude code. To feel swamped in new names. Posted by Roderic D. M. Page. Possible project: A PubMed Central for taxonomy. Is do...
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iPhylo: Automatically extracting possible taxonomic synonyms from the literature
http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2014/11/automatically-extracting-possible.html
Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics. For more ranty and less considered opinions, see my Twitter feed. ISSN 2051-8188 View this blog in Magazine View. Sunday, November 23, 2014. Automatically extracting possible taxonomic synonyms from the literature. Quick notes on an experimental feature I've added to BioNames. For a parasite of the bottlenose dolphin. This name is a synonym of Synthesium tursionis. Joining these together we ca...
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iPhylo: More Neo4J tests of GBIF taxonomy: Using IPNI to find objective synonyms
http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2015/08/more-neo4j-tests-of-gbif-taxonomy-using.html
Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics. For more ranty and less considered opinions, see my Twitter feed. ISSN 2051-8188 View this blog in Magazine View. Sunday, August 09, 2015. More Neo4J tests of GBIF taxonomy: Using IPNI to find objective synonyms. Following on from Testing the GBIF taxonomy with the graph database Neo4J. Are synonyms, and hence only one of these should appear in the GBIF classification. This is an example t...
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iPhylo: Guest post: Response to the discussion on Red List assessments of East African chameleons
http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2014/08/guest-post-response-to-discussion-on.html
Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics. For more ranty and less considered opinions, see my Twitter feed. ISSN 2051-8188 View this blog in Magazine View. Tuesday, August 19, 2014. Guest post: Response to the discussion on Red List assessments of East African chameleons. This is guest post by Angelique Hjarding in response to discussion on this blog. About the paper below. We welcome further discussion as this is a very important top...
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iPhylo: Modelling taxonomic names in databases
http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2015/07/modelling-taxonomic-names-in-databases.html
Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics. For more ranty and less considered opinions, see my Twitter feed. ISSN 2051-8188 View this blog in Magazine View. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Modelling taxonomic names in databases. Quick notes on modelling taxonomic names in databases, as part of an ongoing discussion elsewhere about this topic. One model that is widely used (e.g., ITIS. Separating names and taxa. Is the accepted name for a taxon...
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iPhylo: The Biodiversity Data Journal is not machine readable
http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-biodiversity-data-journal-is-not.html
Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics. For more ranty and less considered opinions, see my Twitter feed. ISSN 2051-8188 View this blog in Magazine View. Monday, July 27, 2015. The Biodiversity Data Journal is not machine readable. In my ( previous post. I discussed the potential for the Biodiversity Data Journal. The problem becomes apparent when you ask "what claims or assertions are the papers making? Here is another example:.
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iPhylo: Possible project: #itaxonomist, combining taxonomic names, DOIs, and ORCID to measure taxonomic impact
http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2015/08/possible-project-itaxonomist-combining.html
Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics. For more ranty and less considered opinions, see my Twitter feed. ISSN 2051-8188 View this blog in Magazine View. Sunday, August 09, 2015. Possible project: #itaxonomist, combining taxonomic names, DOIs, and ORCID to measure taxonomic impact. Imagine that this is run as a campaign (hashtag #itaxonomist), with regular announcements leading up to the release date. Imagine if #itaxonomist tre...
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iPhylo: OpenURL and spiders
http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2007/05/openurl-and-spiders.html
Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics. For more ranty and less considered opinions, see my Twitter feed. ISSN 2051-8188 View this blog in Magazine View. Monday, May 28, 2007. That approach just won't cut it anymore. Dan Chudnov, Rethinking OpenURL. Time to bring some threads together. I've been working on a tool to parse references and find existing identifiers. The tool is at http:/ bioguid.info/references. How do I link to the ot...
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