tools provided by the encyclopedia of life

Tools available to China from EOLLifeDesk• Species information management• Stand alone websites• Export to EOL

TaxonFinderWeb portal code• Content partner management• Curator management

LifeDesk demo

http://lifedesk.eol.org

Created on demandCommunity siteCustomizable

LifeDesk: Classification management

Import a classificationAdd, changeMerge classificationsExport a classification

LifeDesk: Creating species pages

Each LifeDesk stands alone as an independent website

Easily exports species pages to EOL

LifeDesk: Image management

Upload imagesAssociate each with taxon or taxa

LifeDesk: :Image management

Browse and zoom into images to see metadata

LifeDesk: Bibliography management

Import bibliographyAdd new references Export in different formatsAdd tags or PDFs

Name Finding via TaxonFinder

Finds and indexes scientific names in text

All EOL code is open source

http://github.com/eol/eol/tree/masterWelcome to the Encyclopedia of Life project. The bulk of the code

needed to run www.eol.org is written in Ruby on Rails and is made available to anyone for re-use, repurposing or for improvement.

EOL Portal

LifeDesk is built using the Drupal content management system. • Modular• Free• Large open source community

http://drupal.org

Protocols, guidelines we can offer

APIs when they are implementedEOL Transfer SchemaCommunity-built curation policiesData models and harvesting processes