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by xipho 6y ago
Sorry for the crummy link. See the LexisNexis comment above. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELX .
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by xipho 6y ago
At a semantic web meeting sometime back one of the heads of Elsevier reasearch during her talk blatantly stated that "Elsevier is not a publishing company", I noticed numerous heads raise at this comment. Elsevier sells services.
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by xipho 6y ago
I'm in love. I want this as part of an assertion workflow for some of the graph building interfaces we're envisioning for biological data. For example you could allow lines to call from autocompletes, and store some metadata (e.
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by xipho 6y ago
Well, I'm 99% sure you're trolling at this point. So that this ad-hominen is allowed on this website I'll clarify to others why so that they might not fall into the same trap. Your argument comes down to "one counter ex
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by xipho 6y ago
> I'm but merely arguing that your supposition of the value of a “species" is nonsensical. But of course it's not. This is straightforward to demonstrate. If you are to converve a set of traits, as you would like to think,
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by xipho 6y ago
Of course species are hypotheses, nobody is arguing that. Are you suggesting anything that is a hypothesis has no worth? It's trivial to show traits delimit useful species concepts, and indeed ample envidence can be used to show that s
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by xipho 6y ago
Do you feel confident that you can apply an individual measure of meaning as to whether each of the 2 million + estimated species on Earth is "valuable"? If not, perhaps blanked statements might be of use. For example all spec
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by xipho 6y ago
Thanks, that's nice to hear. There are certainly generalizations that have arrisen, we're not building this out of thin air but with reference to a lot of work done over decades (semantics, standards, pre-existing tools). It'
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by xipho 6y ago
I'm not sure that comparing the derivative products of very rich people to a fundemantal understanding of the Earth we live on is a fair comparison. Suggesting we must sell everything feels short-sighted. Knowledge of the Earth benefit
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by xipho 6y ago
My apologies if it sounded harsh, I read it and a "go look it up on Wikipedia" type concept flashed in my head. > But DNA extraction doesn't require deep knowledge about the species. The act of extraction doesn't, but
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by xipho 6y ago
Not sure I understand. A - we identified species B - we removed our ability to identify species A & B therefor C - we're better off ... doesn't seem to follow. Something is missing.
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by xipho 6y ago
Sure [0], [1], [2], [3] can give you a hint at the keywords to search for. "Taxonomic impediment" is often used, it will let you dig deeper (though I don't like the term for various reasons). The topic has been raised for dec
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by xipho 6y ago
Your observation is bang on. I have expressed and argued this point of view to our community as well. I'm not sure there is an easy answer. I advocate strongly for a system that rewards doing something well, as an expert, and not bein
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by xipho 6y ago
Good question, increasingly we can judge for ourselves. Go to BOLD (COI barcoding) [0]. Search for "Apidae". That's just one family of bees, in this case the one that includes 27+ (IIRC, probably way off) subspecies of what
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by xipho 6y ago
I have been at talks by their devs. They candidly admit it will never meet the needs (accuracy) to address questions at this level of specificity. Some things will be extremely successful, many (most) will not. Think of biodiversity as a
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by xipho 6y ago
Not sure if a troll given I address this in the OP. You can't just upload images. Internal dissections, DNA sequences, imaging at SEM scale, all of these are not rare requirements, they are the norm. Specimens have to be meticulously
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by xipho 6y ago
As suggested by others the number of taxonomists, people who could accurately identify species (many of which require internal dissection, or molecular methods), who are actually working on collecting and identify species has most certainly
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by xipho 6y ago
Obviously a bit of hyperbole. The honey bee (dozens(?) of subspecies around the world) is indeed important, you can tell because the largest entomological society in the world (Entomological Society of America) more or less treats them as t
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by xipho 6y ago
This is so true. It blows my mind that nothing exist beyond zxing. Barcodes are everywhere, and quick access to them is the gate-way to a million cool apps, etc.
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by xipho 6y ago
True! But Ultima 1-3 (and 4 on the IIgs) was it for me.
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by xipho 6y ago
This just came up a bit ago in another thread. RBG is so good. Like I did a while back I'll mention that that work is the reason I could write this Ruby svg viz library https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/waxy a
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by xipho 6y ago
This is my experience too. True insights take hard work and time to gain.
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by xipho 6y ago
I'm pretty sure (well certain) it's possible to do. We built a demo VR project to explore insect anatomy. It didn't get very far, was ultra crude, and we had no clue what to consider in the UI/UX of VR. It melted our fel
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by xipho 6y ago
That's a good point re PRs. One possible way of interacting would be to explore the API, and develop a proof of concept UI element with a bit of functionality, that plays off it. Perhaps in a context like this: https://githu
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by xipho 6y ago
See comments/links above in this thread re our first community building event. All feedback is good feedback.
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by xipho 6y ago
We just wrapped up our very first community building event. https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks_together_2020 . You can track us down from there if you're interested. All our software is open source,
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by xipho 6y ago
It was great to work with Pixo. They developed the logo, and homepage, and we ran an experiment together where they built out an interface against our APIs. I learned alot about all aspects of software development from the process, and they
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by xipho 6y ago
I'm admit I'm not totally clear as to your point. If it is that software is terrible because it's not accountable to its users then yes, I agree, this is often one of the reasons why. In our case our group is funded primarily
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by xipho 6y ago
Right. But there are many games, many experiments to draw from. |Further, much of the database is joypad controlled UIs Scientific software requires exploring data, one could imagine many interfaces where joypads, VRs controllers, etc. c
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by xipho 6y ago
| There's no accountability to actual users and doing UX properly would turn the whole project on it's head so guess why no one cares... I don't think we're saying they don't care. It's a balance, right? I&#x2

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