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XX International Botanical Congress 2024
July 25, 2024
We’ve presented echinopscis at the XX International Botanical Congress in Madrid, Spain as part of a symposium called “Taxonomy as...
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Phylogeny viewer plugin
June 10, 2024
The echinopscis project builds on Obsidian for taxonomic research, so a phylogeny viewer plugin would be a useful addition. All...
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Wikidata obsidian plugin
December 01, 2023
Both at TDWG and at the recent TaxonWorks event, we discussed the “entity explosion” browser plugin (that loads the relevant...
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TaxonWorks Together 2023 - echinopscis overview and design decisions
October 26, 2023
We presented echinopscis, an overview and our design decisions in the symposium “The evolving landscape of biodiversity informatics: bringing actionable...
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TDWG 2023 - The role of the OLS program in the development of echinopscis
October 09, 2023
We presented echinopscis at the recent Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) meeting in Hobart, Australia in one of the “contributed oral”...
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Digital Data in Biodiversity Research: "Leveraging Digital Data in Service to Conservation, Ecology, Systematics, Phylogenetics, and Novel Biodiversity Research"
June 04, 2023
echinopscis will be presented at the Digital Data in Biodiversity Research conference hosted by the Arizona State University in Phoenix,...
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Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections: "Taking the Long View"
May 17, 2023
echinopscis will be presented in two sessions at the forthcoming Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) 38th...
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Fostering Data Driven Natural Science through Open Digital Libraries (BHL 2023)
April 19, 2023
echinopscis was presented at the public symposium part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) annual meeting at the Muséum national...
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DiSSCo futures keynote - Digital infrastructures: context & future
February 09, 2023
Annotated slide deck for keynote talk “Digital infrastructures: context & future” from the DISSCO futures event held on 7-9th February...
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AI for the Natural Sciences lightning talk
November 03, 2022
Annotated slide deck for lightning talk “AI at Kew - motivation and context” from the AI for the Natural Sciences...
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Biodiversity Information Standards lightning talk
October 18, 2022
Video and annotated slide deck for lightning talk “Open science tools: Supporting hands-on creation of the "digital extended specimen"” from...
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Animating the build of a research environment network
October 08, 2022
We demonstrated part of echinopscis at a recent event - where we were integrated with a demonstration of Kew’s herbarium...
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Task management in Obsidian
September 09, 2022
This post aims to demonstrate the flexibility of the Obsidian environment, by showing how it has been configured to support...
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Ebbe Nielsen Challenge 2022
August 12, 2022
This project “echinopscis: an extensible notebook for open science on specimens” has been submitted as an entry in the GBIF...
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Presenting at Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2022
August 02, 2022
A lightning talk - Open science tools: Supporting hands-on creation of the “digital extended specimen” - covering this project has...
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Open Life Sciences OLS6
August 02, 2022
This project has been selected to participate in the Open Life Sciences mentoring program, as part of OLS cohort 6....