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

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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

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web service

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