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GBIF track the use of data we provide to scientists, where they later publish papers citing that data [1]. For iNaturalist, the list of known citations is at [2]. In most cases a d…

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) | Software developer | Copenhagen, Denmark | ONSITE, VISA Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) | Senior data engineer | C…

uk.maven.org went offline years ago, although it's still listed in the mirror metadata at https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/.meta/repository-metada... If anyone who can fix that…

That's essentially correct. You might be interested in the snapshots we make available in Azure, Amazon AWS and Google Cloud: https://www.gbif.org/occurrence-snapshots Or the API: …

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) | Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps | Copenhagen, Denmark | €91k p.a. exempt from Danish income tax | ONSITE, VISA GBIF is an inter…

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) | Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps | Copenhagen, Denmark | ONSITE, VISA GBIF is an international organization and open-data resear…

This looks great! I hacked around with OpenMapTiles to generate vector tiles in Arctic, Antarctic and WGS84 projections (the latter with 2×1 tiles at zoom 0) [1]. The time spent wa…

> [7] https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NBNSYS0000021551 With data from GBIF you would have almost all of the British records published on the NBN Atlas (about 100 are not share…

AsciiDoctor supports Unicode just fine. We've integrated it with PO4A[0] and CrowdIn.com to support a translation workflow, and so far have one document in Chinese: [1]. Another (t…

I use https://openmaptiles.org/ at work. For normal, Web Mercator maps we just use the free download of the whole world, available at [1]. Running the OpenMapTiles tools to generat…

Thanks so much for showing me this service, it's great!

Whilst on holiday in Tonga, I met an amateur astronomer with a decent telescope. I think he said it was "20cm". He was showing anyone interested Jupiter and Saturn, which I remembe…

There are around a million names for plants, but due to changing scientific hypotheses, limitations of science and communication centuries ago, new technologies (DNA sequencing etc…

The API example[1] gives several sources: USDA.gov, CATMINAT, PlantNet, GBIF, RBG Kew. There might be other sources, but I don't know about all of these in detail, so I'm not sure.…

The Firefox extension includes both versions, so I see a red underline for advertize (usage is archaic), but not for either realize or realise. aspell -d en_GB-ize-w_accents list i…

Some of the international use might be because the United Nations uses Oxford spelling [1]. My employer does too. GNU Aspell has several variants of "British English", including "B…

As azeirah writes, subreddits or Facebook groups for people interested in the particular group or location will often help. For general wild plants and animals (and fungi and every…

Here are some screenshots of RISC OS 3, including the anti-aliased fonts [1]. In 1992, on a 640x480 CRT, fonts rendered on RISC OS were excellent. Losing this when I switched to Wi…

GNU Aspell has an en_GB-ize-w_accents dictionary, which I think is what's needed. The source seems to be here: http://wordlist.aspell.net/ It's the UN's official version of English…

Here's a result [1] from a system I've put together, primarily using AsciiDoc(tor) and PO4A[3], to allow us to write a source document then translate it into multiple languages. It…

iNaturalist is primarily for wild organisms, but it doesn't matter if they're macroscopic or not. There are some iNaturalist projects specializing in microbes (more than just these…

I feel the article would benefit from pictures of wild wombat droppings in their natural state. Fortunately, we have a few on the Vombatus ursinus page [1]. (I work at GBIF.) > Wom…

> nature photos of particular plant and animal species It's not a like-for-like replacement, but GBIF (my employer) indexes a fairly large collection now. You need a scientific (La…