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ScioChronicle: May 2014
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A Software Development Blog for ScioQualis.com and ScioTR. Thursday, May 15, 2014. ScioTR Available Now in the Win8 Store! What would it take to "Go Paperless? Do you have labels or small forms from which you need to get structured data - in an excel spreadsheet or CSV file? Is a new touch-enabled Windows 8 app which integrates Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Consensus Strategy, and Machine Learning (ML) to provide an efficient workflow for digitizing images into custom data fields.
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ScioChronicle: July 2013
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A Software Development Blog for ScioQualis.com and ScioTR. Saturday, July 6, 2013. As far as we can tell, Rod Page coined the term 'Sticky Data'. As it applies to biocollections. He brilliantly writes:. Shared identifiers are like the hooks on the burrs, if two pieces of data have the same identifier they will stick together. Given enough identifiers and enough data, then we could rapidly assemble a "ball" of interconnected data.". In practice, WHERE. In ScioQualis, such links are made via database field...
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ScioChronicle: Resolving Identifiers for Natural History Collections
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A Software Development Blog for ScioQualis.com and ScioTR. Friday, July 5, 2013. Resolving Identifiers for Natural History Collections. The discussion of unique identifiers for natural history collections records and their corresponding specimens has gone on and on for decades, with the conversation heating up with every passing year. You can read more from BiSciCol. Must be globally unique. Best to mint/create at the Source System of Record (SSoR). Click on images for a larger view). This record shows t...
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ScioChronicle: October 2013
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A Software Development Blog for ScioQualis.com and ScioTR. Thursday, October 24, 2013. Calling all label images in need of digitization! Last summer, we presented a talk and demonstration of ScioTR, a new Windows 8 app for digitizing images of documents (specifically images of natural history collections labels), at the SPNHC. Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota. You can watch a video very similar to the content presented in South Dakota on our YouTube channel. Please email robin@scioqualis.com. Most ...
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ScioChronicle: Calling all label images in need of digitization!
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A Software Development Blog for ScioQualis.com and ScioTR. Thursday, October 24, 2013. Calling all label images in need of digitization! Last summer, we presented a talk and demonstration of ScioTR, a new Windows 8 app for digitizing images of documents (specifically images of natural history collections labels), at the SPNHC. Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota. You can watch a video very similar to the content presented in South Dakota on our YouTube channel. Please email robin@scioqualis.com. Tools...
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ScioChronicle: Maintaining Sticky Data
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A Software Development Blog for ScioQualis.com and ScioTR. Saturday, July 6, 2013. As far as we can tell, Rod Page coined the term 'Sticky Data'. As it applies to biocollections. He brilliantly writes:. Shared identifiers are like the hooks on the burrs, if two pieces of data have the same identifier they will stick together. Given enough identifiers and enough data, then we could rapidly assemble a "ball" of interconnected data.". In practice, WHERE. In ScioQualis, such links are made via database field...
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ScioChronicle: ScioTR Available Now in the Win8 Store!
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A Software Development Blog for ScioQualis.com and ScioTR. Thursday, May 15, 2014. ScioTR Available Now in the Win8 Store! What would it take to "Go Paperless? Do you have labels or small forms from which you need to get structured data - in an excel spreadsheet or CSV file? Is a new touch-enabled Windows 8 app which integrates Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Consensus Strategy, and Machine Learning (ML) to provide an efficient workflow for digitizing images into custom data fields.
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ScioChronicle: Introduction
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A Software Development Blog for ScioQualis.com and ScioTR. Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Was modeled after the Darwin Core standard. But adds a number of other useful fields. It uses GUIDs (Globally Unique IDentifiers) throughout to link pieces of information together. It was specifically designed to address many of the high level needs (like those described in the NIBA Implementation Plan. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A place to make notes about features built into ScioQualis.com. Tools for the digiti...
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ScioChronicle: Storing Decimal Longitude and Latitude in your Collections Database
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A Software Development Blog for ScioQualis.com and ScioTR. Sunday, October 20, 2013. Storing Decimal Longitude and Latitude in your Collections Database. According to the Biogeomancer, Guide to Best Practices in Georeferencing,. Most databases have float and decimal data types. With decimal lat and long, I would suggest using a decimal data type, but one could use a float with ample precision. Here is a good discussion of the difference in the context of long and lat. Longitude: decimal(10, 7). Tools for...
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