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Critically endangered: the Galapagos mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates), the rarest of Darwin’s finches

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

By definition, endangered species consist of low numbers of individuals, which also affects the probability of being able to take good images or recordings of the species, or to find such materials if they already exist. Wikimedia Commons has the … Continue reading →

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A tumor in the making

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

I have been asked a few times (example) why the Open Access File of the Day series is so slanted towards science (rather than, say, humanities), and biomedical research in particular. I typically reply something along the lines of … … Continue reading →

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Sari filtering in Matlab

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

Today’s Open Access File of the Day depicts a group of women washing utensils and vegetables in Matlab [sic!], one of which can be seen to use a sari filter for drinking water, as an illustration of the following observation: In a … Continue reading →

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Open Access and Parasites: 39 intersections on Commons

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

A CatScan for intersections between the categories Open access (publishing) and Parasites an Wikimedia Commons brought about 39 files, of which the following one is today’s Open Access File of the Day, depicting Toxoplasma gondii:   Cover image of the February 2006 issue of PLoS Pathogens, referring to the article Cytoskeletal Components of … Continue reading →

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Animal skeletons meet Open Access

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

Today, I played around with CatScan, trying to identify Open Access files in certain subject categories on Wikimedia Commons. One of these was the intersection between Animal skeletons and Open access (publishing), which gave the following results: Dinosaur skulls File:Pachycephalosaurus skull.png (Media from PLoS … Continue reading →

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Article-level metrics on reuse – a gastropod perspective

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

An article, Neogastropod phylogenetic relationships based on entire mitochondrial genomes, was published by Regina L Cunha, Cristina Grande and Rafael Zardoya in BMC Evolutionary Biology in 2009. It contains multiple phylogenetic trees, with thumbnail images added to represent inhabitants of individual branches. The … Continue reading →

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Embedding widget for Wikimedia content on third-party websites

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Daniel Mietchen

Magnus Manske has written a widget that allows abstracts of Wikipedia articles or previews of categories on Wikimedia Commons to be embedded on third-party websites like that of the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis or blogs like this one. I could … Continue reading →

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Supplementary materials to Wikimedia Commons: “See you soon!”

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Daniel Mietchen

This autumn, like last year, Wikimedia Germany issued a call for proposals for projects that foster the free sharing of information. Today, the winners of this Wissenswert (Ideas Worth Knowing) initiative have been announced, and I am glad to report that amongst … Continue reading →

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Open Access File of the Day on Wikimedia Commons: Rapana venosa shell.png

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Daniel Mietchen

Today at GLAMcamp Amsterdam, I learned about Prolineserver’s tool GLAMourous that automates part of the search for candidates for the Open Access File of the Day. I ran it for the Commons category Images from journals and its subcategories, which contains many of … Continue reading →

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