Roderic PageSignals from Singapore: NGS barcoding, generous interfaces, the return of faunas, and taxonomic…Earlier this year I stopped over in Singapore, home of the spectacular “supertrees” in the Garden by the Bay. The trip was a holiday, but I…Jul 20, 2018Jul 20, 2018
Roderic PageGBIF at 1 billion — what’s next?GBIF has reached 1 billion occurrences which is, of course, something to celebrate:Jul 6, 2018Jul 6, 2018
Roderic PageTowards a biodiversity token: Bitcoin, FinTech, and a radical suggestion for the GBIF ChallengeFirst off, let me say that what follows is a lot of arm waving to try and obscure how little I understand what I’m talking about. I’m going…Jun 4, 2018Jun 4, 2018
Roderic PageTowards a digital natural history museumThese notes are the result of a few events I’ve been involved in the last couple of months, including TDWG 2017 in Ottawa, a thesis defence…Dec 11, 2017Dec 11, 2017
Roderic PageBlue Planet II, the BBC, and the Semantic Web: a tale of lessons forgotten and opportunities lostDavid Attenborough’s latest homage to biodiversity, Blue Planet II is, as always, visually magnificent. Much of its impact derives from the…Dec 6, 20172Dec 6, 20172
Roderic PageApple’s Knowledge Navigator concept video (1987): we are still a long way from this visionI’ve been viewing Apple’s Knowledge Navigator concept video from 1987 and it’s striking how much of this we have today, and yet how far…Jul 4, 2017Jul 4, 2017
Roderic PageGBIF Challenge 2017: Liberating species records from open data repositories for scientific…GBIF is running its Ebbe Nielsen Challenge for the third successive year. This year the title is Liberating species records from open data…Jun 16, 2017Jun 16, 2017
Roderic PageProgramming with Glitch: microservices and serverless computingYes, this post is indeed an attempt to fit as many buzzwords that I don’t really understand into the title. I’ve been playing around with…May 31, 2017May 31, 2017
Roderic PageWikidata, WikiCite, and the “bibliography of life”Last week I was at WikiCite 2017, a fascinating three day event in Vienna. Wikicite is “a proposal to build a bibliographic database in…May 31, 2017May 31, 2017