species pages and portals
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A talk presented January 19, 2013 in the Indo-US Joint Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment in Bangalore, India.TRANSCRIPT
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Cynthia ParrJoint Indo-US Workshop on Biodiversity InformaticsBangelore, 20 January 2013
Encyclopedia of LifeServing the building blocks of biodiversity knowledge
Problems
• Specialist communities make their own species pages
• Duplicating effort is costly• Hard to find scattered information• Not always aimed at the right audience• Hard to compare and know what to trust • New applications have to start over
The solution?
The solutions
Make sure specialist communities thrive& develop resources they need
Encourage coordination and sharing with credit and rewards
Provide tools for data discovery, exchange, improvement & re-use
EOL aggregates and curates
Scientific DatabasesScientific JournalsDirect text contributionLinks to BHL, etc. Curate
CommentRate, Collect
eol.orgAggregate
Quality control API
Third party apps
>1.1 million taxon pages with content from more than 200 providers 1000s individual contributors
5 million content objects 63,000 members
1,163 curators
EOL Table of Contents TDWG Species Profile Model
Overview › Distribution #Distribution
Physical Description › Morphology #Morphology
Physical Description › Size #Size
Ecology › Habitat #Habitat
Ecology › Associations #Associations
Life History & Behavior › Life Expectancy #LifeExpectancy
Evolution and Systematics › Functional Adaptations #Evolution
Conservation > Conservation Status #ConservationStatus
Molecular Biology and Genetics › Genetics #Genetics
Example biological content on details tab
Total of 1,475,404 images 9,756 videos 28,576 sounds
Maps
Literature
EOL curation
Master curators
Fix taxon problem
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Full curators
Trust or untrust
Add new ID
Set preferred name and
classification
Assistant CuratorsAdd & prefer common names
Members
Add new text
Rate Comment
Set exemplar image
China
Australia
Dutch
South Africa
Costa Rica
Mexico EgyptIndia
Colombia
Peru
Taiwan
Norway
USA
EOL interface now in 12 languagesVia translatewiki.org
India Biodiversity Portal content
Engagement: Collections
Many user-created EOL collections are local checklists
Other listsn=1662
Geographical checklistsn=618
Chitra Ravi’s AvesIndia collection . . .
Becomes an iNaturalist.org citizen science project
Third party applications eol.org/api
EOL v3
Relations
Numeric values
Controlled vocabulary
Future plans
2013 Rubenstein Fellows projects
Announcing seven new projects using: Text mining, visualization, crowd-sourcing,
computer vision, R statistics module
Answering questions from: Evolutionary biology, ecology, conservation biology, taxonomy
Crowd-sourcing for computable data
Lovell and Libby Langstroth, Calphotos Foodwebs.org
Summary
• Focus on building blocks• Multiple audiences• Scalable• Sustainable• Improvable
Building Species Pages workshop 4 – 6pm today
Our fundersJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationAlfred P. Sloan FoundationSmithsonian InstitutionMarine Biological LaboratoryDavid Rubenstein and other funders and donors
All our content providers and global partnersVolunteer curators and individual contributors via Flickr,
Wikimedia, and members of EOLATREE and all of you
Thanks to