introducing encyclopedia of life version 2
DESCRIPTION
A talk given 18 October 2011 at TDWG 2011 (Biodiversity Informaticn Standards: Taxonomic Databases Working Group) in New Orleans, Louisiana.TRANSCRIPT
EOLv2 eol.org
Key ideas
EngagementLeveraging Darwin CoreCollaborations
v2: Scope & Engagement
• All species• Global• Many audiences
– enthusiasts– scientists– learners– citizen scientists
EOL v1
EOL v2
eol.org
Scientific DatabasesBHL, GBIF, ALA, COL, Scratchpads Scientific JournalsPensoft Publishing
EOL aggregates and curates
Curate
CommentRate, Collect
eol.orgAggregate
API
Third party apps
Quality control, prioritization
Summarizing knowledgeNot managing raw data
Many topicsMorphology, conservation, behavior ecology,
genomics etc.
Taxonomy is frameworkNot the goal
ITIS and COL
NCBI
v2 engagement: Collections
How would you like to get information from collections?
v2 engagement: Communities to share interests or to share work
• Collections as checklists
• Third-party app using collections to instantly set up new mobile data entry
• Could copy items & annotations to reflect actual observations
V2 engagement: Internationalization• Spanish – INBio, CONABIO• Arabic – Bibliotheca Alexandrina• Translatewiki for interfaces in other languages
v2: Incentives for improvement
Image credit: Peter Förster
http://eol.org/info/priority_taxa_on_eol
See updates tab
usingDarwin Core Archive flat files as transport mechanism
Common Names
Taxon
ImageAttribution
References
Take-home messages
• EOL helps taxonomists and others reach broader audiences via engagement
• Leveraging and adding to existing Darwin Core• Collaborations are key, for content, for
software development, quality control, for sustainability
Tree contest
• Largest hierarchy that reflects the state of our phylogenetic knowledge
• Submit to EOL in DwC-A• Proof of concept• Navigation of EOL web content• Prize – all-expenses paid trip to iEvoBio 2012 in Ottawa, Canada
STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS
Acknowledgements
Funding from:John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationAlfred P. Sloane FoundationSmithsonian InstitutionMarine Biological LaboratoryHarvard University and other funders and donors
All our content partners and global partners, especially:INBio -- Costa RicaBiblioteca Alexandrina -- EgyptCONABIO – MexicoGBIF
Volunteer curators and individual contributors via Flickr, Wikimedia, and members of EOL
EOL Table of Contents TDWG Species Profile Model
Physical Description › Morphology #MorphologyPhysical Description › Size #SizeEcology › Habitat #HabitatEcology › Associations #AssociationsLife History & Behavior › Life Expectancy #LifeExpectancy Evolution and Systematics › Functional Adaptations #Evolution Conservation > Conservation Status #ConservationStatus Molecular Biology and Genetics › Genetics #GeneticsMolecular Biology and Genetics › Genome #MolecularBiologyMolecular Biology and Genetics › Molecular Biology #MolecularBiology
Nucleotide Sequences #MolecularBiology
Sample biological content
v2 content standardsContent type• Taxa• Attribution &
licensing• Text objects & links• Multimedia
Standards used• Darwin Core• Dublin & Darwin
Core• SPM (and now +)• Dublin (+ Audubon
Core)
Low hanging fruit
Photo credit: Stanislas PERRIN
How EOLv1 got content n=141 partners
XML resource doc Connector LD/eLD/Scratchpad
Spreadsheet0
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CSV
web service
HTMLDB
LD/eLD/Scratchpad