I've tweaked Ozymandias to now include short natural language summaries (snippets) for various taxa. This makes the output a little more friendly and informative. For example, here's a snippet from the page on Cephalodesmius , a dung beetle that makes its own dung. These snippets come from Wikipedia, well actually, from the DBpedia project.

Auch bei Creative-Commons-Inhalten können Urheberrechte verletzt werden, wenn die Lizenzbedingungen missachtet werden. Ein Urteil des Oberlandesgerichts Köln gibt weitere Hinweise, wann in solchen Fällen Schadensersatz verlangt werden kann. Inhalte unter Creative-Commons-Lizenzen lassen sich kostenlos nutzen, ohne beim Urheber oder Rechteinhaber nachfragen zu müssen.

Öffentlich finanzierte Forschungsergebnisse sollen bis 2020 „standardmäßig“ offen zugänglich sein. So hat es zumindest der EU-Ministerrat beschlossen. Die niederländische Ratspräsidentschaft verkündet sogleich per Pressemitteilung: „Alle wissenschaftlichen Artikel in Europa ab 2020 ungehindert zugänglich“. Wie das passiert?

Given that Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) all share the goal of making information free, open, and accessible, there seems to be a lot of potential for useful collaboration. Below I sketch out some ideas. BHL as a source of references for Wikipedia Wikipedia likes to have sources cited to support claims in its articles. BHL has a lot of articles that could be cited by Wikipedia articles.

[Since our blog post last summer on the inclusion of Wikipedia as an external links provider, we have been lucky to host an intern, Tom Arrow,  who has spent the last few months investigating possible further connections between Wikimedia projects and Europe PMC.

For anyone doing research or involved in scientific infrastructure, demonstrating the "impact" of those activities is becoming increasingly important.

My paper "Surfacing the deep data of taxonomy" (based on a presentation I gave in 2011) has appeared in print as part to a special issue of Zookeys : The manuscript was written shortly after the talk, but as is the nature of edited volumes it's taken a while to appear. My tweet about the paper sparked some interesting comments from David Shorthouse.

Last week I attended the Wikipedia Science Conference (hashtag: #wikisci) at the Wellcome Trust in London. it was an interesting two days of talks and discussion. Below are a few random notes on topics that caught my eye. What is Wikidata? A recurring theme was the emergence of Wikidata, although it never really seemed clear what role Wikidata saw for itself.

One of the less glamorous but necessary tasks of data cleaning is mapping "strings to things", that is, taking strings such as "George A. Boulenger" and mapping them to identifiers, such as ISNI: 0000 0001 0888 841X. In case of authors such as George Boulenger, one way to do this would be through Wikipedia, which has entries for many scientists, often linked to identifiers for those people (see the bottom of the Wikipedia page for George A.

Europe PMC has a new provider of External Links: links from articles on Europe PMC to related content on 3 ^rd party websites. Our most recent addition provides links from over 300,000 articles to entries in Wikipedia: the free encyclopaedia.