Last week (25-26 February) I was in London for CISCO Pit Stop event. Thursday evening was at the Natural History Museum where I gave a talk extolling the virtues of linking stuff together: My slides are here: Cisco Digital Catapult from Roderic Page Friday we assembled at the Digital Catapult Centre, which as Sandy Knapp notes, has some amazing views from it's 9th floor.

Brief update on yesterday's post about finding specimens in BioStor. BioStor has some 66,000 articles from BHL, from which I've extracted 143,000 cases of a specimen code being cited in the text. Of these 143,000 occurrences, 81,000 have been matched to an occurrence in GBIF.

Bit late, but I stumbled across DeepDyve, which provides rental access to scientific papers for as little as $0.99. The pitch to publishers is: Renting a paper means you get to read it online, but you can't print or download it, and access is time limited (unless you purchase the article outright). You can also purchase monthly plans (think Spotify for papers). It's an interesting model, and the interface looks nice.