v2: Scope & Engagement
• All species• Global• Many audiences
– enthusiasts– scientists– learners– citizen scientists
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
• 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
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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)