Following on from my previous post on microcitations I've blasted all the citations in Nomenclator Zoologicus through my microcitation service and created a simple web site where these results can be browsed.The web site is here: http://iphylo.org/~rpage/nz/.To create it I've taken a file dump of Nomenclator Zoologicus provided by Dave Remsen and run all the citations through the microcitation service, storing the results in a simple database.

One of the challenges of linking databases of taxonomic names to the primary literature is the minimal citation style used by nomenclators (see my earlier post Nomenclators + digitised literature = fail).For example, consider Nomenclator Zoologicus.

BioStor has had a Twitter account @biostor_org for a while, but it's not been active.

Continuing experiments with a zoom viewer for large trees (see previous post), I've now made a demo where the labels are clickable. If the NCBI taxon has an equivalent page in Wikipedia the demo displays and link to that page (and, if present, a thumbnail image). Give it a try athttp://iphylo.org/~rpage/deeptree/3.htmlor watch the short video clip below: Zoomable viewer with Wikipedia thumbnails from Roderic Page on Vimeo.

Mendeley has added a feature which makes it easier to use Mendeley with repositories such as BioStor and BHL.

After the teaser on Friday (see Deep zooming a large 2D tree) I've put a live demo of my experiments with viewing a large tree online at:http://iphylo.org/~rpage/deeptree/The first example (Experiment 1) is the NCBI classification for frogs: Simple deep tree viewer from Roderic Page on Vimeo.This version displays internal node labels, leaf labels (as many as can be displayed at a given zoom level), and works in Safari, Firefox, and Internet

Here's a quick demo of a 2D large tree viewer that I'm working on. The aim is to provide a simple way to view and navigate very large trees (such as the NCBI classification) in a web browser using just HTML and Javascript. At the moment this is simply a viewer, but the goal is to add the ability to show "tracks" like a genome browser.

Matt Yoder (@mjyoder had a Twitter conversation yesterday about phylogeny viewers, prompted by my tweeting about my latest displacement activity, a 2D tree browser using the tiling approach made popular by Google Maps.As part of that conversation, Matt tweeted:Well, Matt's imagination has gone into overdrive, and he's blogged about his ideas. This issue deserves more exploration, but here are some quick thoughts.

Quick note to express the frustration I experience sometimes when dealing with taxonomic literature.

Jeff Atwood, one of the co-founders of Stack Overflow recently wrote a blog post Trouble In the House of Google, where he noted that several sites that scrape Stack Overflow content (which Stack Overflow's CC-BY-SA license permits) appear higher in Google's search rankings than the original Stack Overflow pages . When Stack Overflow chose the CC-BY-SA license they made the assumption that:Jeff Atwood's post goes on to argue that something

Yesterday I posted notes on Web Hooks and OpenURL. That post was written when I was already late (you know, when you say to yourself "yeah, I've got time, it'll just take 5 minutes to finish this..."). The Web Hooks + OpenURL project is still very much a work in progress, but I thought a screen cast would help explain why I think this is going to make my life a lot easier.