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Tools available to China from EOL LifeDesk Species information management Stand alone websites Export to EOL TaxonFinder Web portal code Content partner management Curator management

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Page 1: 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

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LifeDesk demo

http://lifedesk.eol.org

Created on demandCommunity siteCustomizable

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LifeDesk: Classification management

Import a classificationAdd, changeMerge classificationsExport a classification

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LifeDesk: Creating species pages

Each LifeDesk stands alone as an independent website

Easily exports species pages to EOL

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LifeDesk: Image management

Upload imagesAssociate each with taxon or taxa

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LifeDesk: :Image management

Browse and zoom into images to see metadata

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LifeDesk: Bibliography management

Import bibliographyAdd new references Export in different formatsAdd tags or PDFs

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Name Finding via TaxonFinder

Finds and indexes scientific names in text

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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

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Protocols, guidelines we can offer

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