Cybertaxonomist
Entomology Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K.
E-mail: vince@vsmith.info (preferred) or v.smith@nhm.ac.uk (official), iChat Video Conferencing: vsmithuk@mac.com (by invitation) Tel: +44 (0) 207 942 5127, Fax: +44 (0) 207 942 5661, Skype: vsmithuk
I am a research scientist at the Natural History Museum, London. My official title is 'cybertaxonomist,' which means I apply computer technology and the web to the study of biodiversity. When I am not doing this, I work on the evolution of parasitic lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera). You can track my research interests and activities through my blog, publications, presentations, reading list, calendar, and my twitter feed.
View my profileJan Štefka, Paquita Hoeck, Lukas F Keller and Vincent S Smith (2011)
A hitchhikers guide to the Galápagos: co-phylogeography of Galápagos mockingbirds and their parasites
e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science
Fri, 2011-12-02 10:48 — Vince Smith
A few days ago, a special issue of ZooKeys, edited by myself and Lyubomir Penev, published its jubilee Issue No 150 "e-Infrastructures for Data Publishing in Biodiversity Science", comprising 18 papers in total plus two editorials. These cover a variety of reviews, essays and research articles, including a review on data issues in life sciences and three exemplar papers that demonstrate simultaneous data publishing through the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) and Dryad. The issue also contains the first ever data paper generated from biodiversity metadata through the GBIF IPT - Pensoft workflow. Most of the papers have been developed through the EU-funded project ViBRANT.
Smith, V.S., Ford, T., Johnson, K.P., Johnson, P.C.D., Yoshizawa, K., Light, J.E. (2011)
Multiple lineages of lice pass through the K-Pg boundary
Biology Letters. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0105
Smith, VS. (2011)
Setting the agenda for WP4
ViBRANT WP4 Standards meeting, Botanic gardens and museum, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Feb. 17-18, 2011.
Smith, V.S. (2011)
Scripting Life: ViBRANT’s kick-off meeting
Entomology departmental meeting, at the Natural History Museum, London, UK. Feb 9th, 2011.
Smith, V.S. (2011)
ViBRANT Strategic board
Scripting Life: the science behind ViBRANT, at the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Paris, France on 20th and 21st January 2011.
Smith, V.S. (2011)
An introduction to ViBRANT lightning talks
Scripting Life: the science behind ViBRANT, at the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Paris, France on 20th and 21st January 2011.
Smith, V.S. (2011)
Setting the Scene for ViBRANT – Strategy, Philosophy and Communication
Scripting Life: the science behind ViBRANT, at the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Paris, France on 20th and 21st January 2011.
Smith, V.S. (2011)
ViBRANT Project Overview
Scripting Life: the science behind ViBRANT, at the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Paris, France on 20th and 21st January 2011.
Senior Drupal Developer Wanted!
Tue, 2010-08-17 17:09 — Vince Smith
We seek a senior Drupal developer for a 3-year (full-time) position as part of a major collaborative effort to help researchers share and manage biodiversity data on the web (http://scratchpads.eu/). The work will include design and implementation of web applications, web services, data schemas and other applications and services.
