I promised more photos in the previous post, so here they are. Penicillium: Detail With conidiophores Detail of conidiophores More fungi: Cat brains: This post is part of a series.

Citation.js Version 0.4 Beta: New Docs and Input Plugins It’s been a while. Really. But now it’s back, with a new release: v0.4.0-0, the v0.4 beta. Below I explain some of the changes in this release, and then the road-map of Citation.js for v0.4 and v0.5. Also, Citation.js has a DOI now: Also, @jsterlibs tweeted about Citation.js. Release Input plugins The main change in this release, is the addition of input plugins.

Below is part two of a small series on ctj rdf, a new program I made to transform ContentMine CProjects into SPARQL-queryable Wikidata-linked rdf. Here’s a more detailed example. We are using my dataset available at 10.5281/zenodo.845935. It was generated from 1000 articles that mention ‘Pinus’ somewhere. This one has 15326 statements, whereof 8875 (57.9%) can be mapped, taking ~50 seconds.

Below is part one of a small series on ctj rdf, a new program I made to transform ContentMine CProjects into SPARQL-queryable Wikidata-linked rdf. ctj has been around for longer, and started as a way to learn my way into the ContentMine pipeline of tools, but turned out to uncover a lot of possibilities in further processing the output of this pipeline (1, 2). The recent addition of ctj rdf expands on this.

Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit A while back I tweeted about making a simple Citation.js API Endpoint with RunKit.

It’s been in beta since January 30, but here it is: Citation.js version 0.3. Below I explain the changes since the last blog post, and under that is a more complete change log. Also some upcoming changes.

Citation.js: DOI update and more stability Finally, Citation.js supports DOIs. It took a while, but it’s finally there. One big ‘but’: synchronous fetching doesn’t work in Chrome. I’m still looking into that, but I should be recommending you to use Cite.async() anyway. Also in this blog post: more stability in Cite#get(), a welcome byproduct of using the DOI API, and looking forward (again). DOI support So, DOIs.

I got to make photographs of pre-made specimens with a microscope, and I wanted to show some of them. This is part one of a longer series; there were a lot of specimens. Below are details of the cross section of a basswood stem. Detail Outer layer Center Human artery tissue. Human bone tissue (with some unidentified dark stuff). More next week!

I worked on updates for Citation.js in the past few weeks, and I thought I'd go over them in this post. Async First of all, Citation.js now has support for asynchronous parsing, so it won't lag your app as much when it uses e.g. the Wikidata API. This is good, as synchronous requests are not only blocking your app, but also deprecated in most major browsers.

My new homepage is finally finished (for now). I say finally, because it has taken a while before it actually felt done. You know how the first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, but the last 10% of the work takes another 90% of the time? I just had to finish writing a single, small piece of text and it would be complete, but it took about 2 weeks.

Originally posted on the ContentMine blog. Lars Willighagen, orcid:0000-0002-4751-4637 Final Report of my fellowship at the ContentMine. Proposal My proposal was to extract facts about various conifer species by analysing text from papers with software suited for analysing text and the tools provided by the ContentMine.