I've released a simple search engine for publications in Wikidata. Wikicite Search takes its name from the WikiCite project, which was an initiative to create a bibliographic database in Wikidata. Since bibliographic data is a core component of taxonomic research (arguably taxonomy is mostly tracing the fate of the "tags" we call taxonomic names) I've spent some time getting taxonomic literature into Wikidata.

Following on from earlier posts exploring how to map DNA barcodes and putting barcodes into GBIF it's time to think about taking advantage of what makes barcodes different from typical occurrence data. At present GBIF displays data as dots on a map (as do I in http://iphylo.org/~rpage/bold-map/). But barcodes come with a lot more information than that.

OK, so the title is pure click bait, but here's the thing. It seems to me that the Semantic Web as classically conceived (RDF/XML, SPARQL, triple stores) has had relatively little impact outside academia, whereas other technologies such as JSON, NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, CouchDB) and graph databases (e.g., Neo4J) have got a lot of developer mindshare. In biodiversity informatics the Semantic Web has been a round for a while.