Hot on the heals of 0.2.2:

Biocorder 0.2.3 Linux/OS X

Biocorder 0.2.3 Windows

Skipping straight past 0.2.1 and on to 0.2.2 today. Now BioCorder includes installation instructions for Apple OS X and Windows XP.

Biocorder 0.2.2 Linux/OS X

Biocorder 0.2.2 Windows

Our first public beta is available for download. We'd love to have your feedback!

Download BioCorder 0.2.0

There is a BioCorder demo site available. Feel free to tinker with the data. It will be reset on occasion.

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BioCorder demo

Quite nice little story on SPARQL at O'Reilly's Developer blogs. Food for thought (i.e., this nis soemthing it would be cool for us to do...)

Tim O'Reilly has posted a meme map of Web 2.0, from the "What is Web 2.0?" brainstorming session at FOO Camp 2005. Any of these issues sound familiar?

Web2.0 MemeMap

More info on this is published here

To make the decentralised vision for BioCorder a reality we will ideally need a decentralised system for authenticating and managing real-world user identities online. Rod Page has suggested OpenID as a possible solution. For a great presentation on the issues surrounding digital identification take a look at Dick Hardt’s keynote address at OSCON (O'Reilly Open Source Convention) 2005.

A non-exhaustive list of projects of relevance to BioCorder. See also the entries under Standards, Schema, Protocols:

The Semantic Web is a mesh of information linked up in such a way that it can be easily processed by computers on a global scale. You can think of it as being an efficient way of representing data on the World Wide Web, or as a globally linked database. Information on the Semantic Web is maintained in a structured form on web servers, and is fairly easy for both computers and people to work with.

Three months into the project (Sept. 2005), BioCorder is at the proof of concept stage. We are deploying Life Science Identifiers (LSID’s) within our current web databases (more info here) and converting these databases to output Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements. These are prerequisites of the Semantic Web.