Manuscripts describing databases are usually pretty turgid affairs, and this isn't an exception, despite my attempts to spice it up with the tale of
Finding scientific articles in a large digital archive: BioStor and the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Yesterday I uploaded a manuscript to Nature Precedings that describes the inner workings of BioStor. The title is "Finding scientific articles in a large digital archive: BioStor and the Biodiversity Heritage Library", and you can grab it here: hdl:10101/npre.2010.4928.1.
Manuscripts describing databases are usually pretty turgid affairs, and this isn't an exception, despite my attempts to spice it up with the tale ofLeviathan, oops, Livyatan (see doi:10.1038/nature09381 and Wikipedia). Plus, I can't escape the thought that BioStor would have been a lot more fun to write if I'd used a key-value database like CouchDB. I fear this is often the way of things. By the time it comes to writing something up, you realise that if you could start over you'd do it rather differently.
Manuscripts describing databases are usually pretty turgid affairs, and this isn't an exception, despite my attempts to spice it up with the tale of