@rdmpage
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Digitisation
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/15930177695
GBIF.org 500+ million records
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/658657
Not everybody likes digitisation
Digitisation is uneven
441,023 data points in Kenya…
None of the data about Kenya comes from Kenya
iNaturalist
EOL photos in Flickr
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.92668
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Not everything can be digitised
45 million pages, all Open Access
100,000 articles from http://biostor.org (BHL)
1923 today
http://artlawjournal.com/mickey-mouse-keeps-changing-copyright-law/
Not everyone can access digital material
4 million articles
35 years in jail
$US 1M fine
Information wants to be free
Information wants to be expensive
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Knowing what we know
• There are known knowns, things we know that we know
• There are known unknowns, things we now know we don’t know
• But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know
known
unknown
knowns
unknowns
Mt Mabu on GBIF
http://bionames.org
Actionable information
Think this way for a while, and you notice a key factor: old data usually isn’t very interesting. You’ll be much more interested in what your users are doing right now than what they were doing a year ago. Sure, spotting trends in historical data might be cool, but in all likelihood it isn’t actionable. Today’s data is.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.10.002
GBIF.org 500+ million records
• Digitisation and access
• Knowing what we know
• Actionable information