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Identification ResourcesInformatikEnglisch
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The website of the Library of Identification Resources has a new feature: a map view. The resources in the catalog are associated with a geographic scope to approximate which species in a taxonomic group can be identified. These geographic scopes are usually countries or continents but can also be subdivisions within countries, multinational ecological regions like mountain ranges, and biogeographical realms.

Identification ResourcesTaxonomyInformatikEnglisch
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Since around this time last year, I have been working on creating a library of identification resources. Here, “identification resources” are identification keys, multi-access (matrix) keys, other works that can aid in the identification of species. The project is managed on GitHub: https://github.com/identification-resources.

BibliographyCitation.jsProgrammingInformatikEnglisch
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Since the citation-js npm package was first published, version 0.6 is the first major version of Citation.js that did not start out as a pre-release. Version 0.3 itself spent almost 6 months in pre-release, but only received updates for less than half a month. Version 0.4 spent more than a year in pre-release and received updates for about 4 months.

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Version 0.5.0 Version 0.5.0 of Citation.js was released on April 1st, 2021. BibTeX and BibLaTeX After the update to the Bib(La)TeX file parser, described in the earlier BibTeX Rework: Syntax Update blog post, the mapping of BibTeX and BibLaTeX data to CSL-JSON was also updated. The mapping is now split in two, one for BibLaTeX (which is backwards-compatible with BibTeX) and one for BibTeX.

Citation.jsProgrammingInformatikEnglisch
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I recently updated the website of Citation.js. This involved getting rid of the Material Design Lite framework, simplifying and refreshing the site design and modernisering some of the code behind it. Additionally, I updated the content of the homepage, and added some functionality to the interface of the blog page and the demo.

CDLIProgrammingInformatikEnglisch
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The CDLI is developing a new website. That website’s admin interface for its journals contains a page where a LaTeX source file, following a specific template, is configured to an HTML page. For this, apart from the LaTeX file itself, two additional components are needed: a BibTeX file, containing metadata of the references; and image files.

CDLIProgrammingInformatikEnglisch
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Since Google Summer of Code 2020 I have been contributing code to the new framework of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), a digital repository for metadata, transliterations, images, and other data of cuneiform inscriptions, as well as tools to work with that data. One of the features of the new CDLI framework is improved editing of artifact metadata, as well as inscriptions.

Citation.jsProgrammingInformatikEnglisch
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Recently I moved the Citation.js API documentation from /api to /api/0.3, to put the new documentation on /api/0.5. I fixed all the links to the documentation, but I still got a issue request regarding a 404 error after just a few days. All in all, I had to redirect pages from /api/* to /api/0.3/* while all these pages are hosted as static files on GitHub Pages.

StatisticsInformatikEnglisch
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Every week since the start of January I heard headlines like “3963 new infections, a bit more than average”. In context, that meant that the amount of positive COVID-19 that day was higher than the average daily amount of cases in the previous seven days. Even though we heard that every week, overall the cases were going down.