EUtils, Pipes, Ubiquity, preprints and semi-automatic categorisation
I’ve made a few web service-related tools recently that might be of interest to Nascent readers, so here they are collected in one place: … Read more
I’ve made a few web service-related tools recently that might be of interest to Nascent readers, so here they are collected in one place: … Read more
Yahoo! SearchMonkey lets anyone create “applications” that enhance the Yahoo! search results of users that have chosen to add them. Read more
The new version 1.5 of OS X literature management tool Papers has lots of new and improved features, but one of the most immediately useful is the ability to parse the DOI string out of a PDF and use it to look up the metadata for that file from PubMed. As the metadata that publishers put in PDF files is generally pitiful and basically unreliable for any practical use, this is a very welcome feature. Read more
Rather than fill up Nascent with posts about Scintilla, we’ve moved Scintilla’s development talk to a separate blog, Scintillation. There you’ll find news of features, usage tips and discussion of other related issues, including the new design. Read more
According to reports of a video accidentally leaked from inside Google, the Google Reader developers have interesting plans for the future. While Scintilla works on a different scale from Google Reader (which is said to store “10 terabytes of raw data from 8 million feeds”) and also doesn’t aim for the same niche of general-purpose feed reader, there are proposals reported that would help aggregation sites like Scintilla, as well as several features that we’ve already implemented. Here’s a selection of the most interesting: … Read more
Planet Nature is an aggregator of all the NPG blogs that post original content. It’s powered by Venus, an actively developed branch of the Planet software. Read more
If you’re attending XTech 2007 next week, or just happen to be in Paris on Tuesday evening, come along to the Science BOF session – it’s open to anyone who’s interested. Read more
Last week on Inside Higher Ed there was an article by Scott McLemee describing his wishlist for an ‘academic aggregator’ that would both a) collate new information from the web of academic publishing into one place and b) allow people to build directories of links on academic topics. Read more