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Installing Stardog triplestore on mac os

Stardog is an enterprise-level triplestore developed by clarkparsia.com. It combines tools to store and query RDF data with more advanced features for inference and data analytics – in particular via...

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Dereference a DOI using python

A little python script that allows to pass an article DOI in order to obtain all the metadata related to that article. The script relies on the handy crosscite.org API, which is one of the wonderful...

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Accessing OS X dictionary with Python

A little script that allows to access the OS X Dictionary app using Python. Tip: make the script executable and add an alias for it in order to be able to call it from the command line easily.  

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SpotiSci: finding science concepts on Spotify

Ever wondered how many musical albums focus on topics like the moon landing, artificial intelligence or DNA replication? Probably not for everyone’s taste, but if you give it a shot you’ll be surprised...

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Apple Keynote: extracting presenter notes to Markdown

Here’s a simple AppleScript that makes it easier to extract presenter notes from a Keynote presentation and save them to a nice Markdown document. If you’re using Apple Keynote, you may have noticed...

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How to copy snippets from Github Gists to Dash

If you’re a Dash for MacOS user, here’s a little script to copy existing code snippets saved as Github Gists into the Dash snippets database. Dash for MacOS is an application that allows to keep a...

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OntoSpy v.1.7.4

A new version of OntoSpy (1.7.4) is available online. OntoSpy is a lightweight Python library and command line tool for inspecting and visualising vocabularies encoded in the RDF family of languages....

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Introducing DimCli: a Python CLI for the Dimensions API

For the last couple of months I’ve been working on a new open source Python project. This is called DimCli  and it’s a library aimed at making it simpler to work with the Dimensions Analytics API. The...

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Pypapers: a bare-bones, command line, PDF manager

Ever felt like softwares like Mendeley or Papers are great, but somehow slow you down? Ever felt like none of the many reference manager softwares out there will ever cut it for you, cause you need...

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Getting to grips with Google Colab

I’ve been using Google Colab on a regular basis during the last few months, as I was curious to see whether I could make the switch to it (from a more traditional Jupyter/Jupyterlab environment). As it...

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