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rdf4r library: build your semantic RDF database from R

Miguel A. Fortuna on Our computational toolbox | 15 Mar 2021

We have extended the functionality of the rdf4r library, developed for working with Resource Description Framework (RDF) data in the R programming environment, to improve performance when uploading lots of RDF triples to a graphDB triplestore hosted in a remote server.…

Scientific knowledge should be semantically encoded: a graph of nanopublications.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Our research | 22 Feb 2021

Only with the adquisition of meaning we adquire knowledge. We briefly explain here an approach to use and link nanopublications (i. e., a linked data format for scholarly data publishing) as a unifying framework to represent knowledge in a semantic way.…

Arthur Schopenhauer’s "On authorship and style".

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab | 24 Aug 2020

Should peer review stop being anonymous? Inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer’s "On authorship and style", I now sign my reviews. I would like to share here some excerpts on anonymity in literary journals from this memorable essay.…

Our desktop computers: Raspberry Pi 4 + 2 vertical monitors.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab | 06 Jul 2020

We do not need powerful desktop computers in our lab, just single connection points in the cloud. Learn how to build a silent, energy-efficient, and dual display workspace.…

Ontology for Avida: a computational approach for performing experimental evolution on digital organisms.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Our research | 15 Jun 2020

The Ontology for Avida project is developing an integrated vocabulary for the description of the most widely used computational approach for performing experimental evolution on digital organisms.…

DataCite: get your bibliographic references automatically by providing DOIs.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Our computational toolbox | 08 Jun 2020

Getting your bibliographic references from DOIs, appropriately formatted to the journal you are planning to submit your manuscript.…

PURL: getting permanent addresses to access the files you share.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Our computational toolbox | 25 May 2020

You should create a persistent address for sharing files with your colleagues on the web when you are not sure about where they will be located in your server.…

Docker Hub: pulling and pushing container images to a public respository

Miguel A. Fortuna on Our computational toolbox | 18 May 2020

Learn how to use Docker's container registry (Doker Hub) to find official images and host your own for public or private use.…

Docker: software that includes everything needed to run an application.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Our computational toolbox | 11 May 2020

Docker is a container of software that includes everything needed for an application to run isolated from the operating system. In this post we will walk you through the installation process.…

Zenodo: a catch-all repository for your research.

Miguel A. Fortuna on Setting up our lab | 04 May 2020

Zenodo is a general-purpose open-access repository that assign a persistent digital object identifier (DOI) to any research digital material. We show how to create a release of a repository stored in GitHub and upload it into Zenodo.…

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