EOL species pages:from 42 pages to 156,000 species pages

Torsten Dikow

Biodiversity Synthesis CenterField Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA

The making of species pages

» Present species pages in both – EDIT and EOL

» Scratchpads (EDIT) & LifeDesk (EOL) both based on Drupal (content management software) http://drupal.org/

Share photos with EOL through flickr grouphttp://flickr.com/groups/806927@N20/

» Rules◊ image set to public

◊ image is licensed with public domain or CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC-SA http://creativecommons.org/about/license/

◊ image is tagged using machine tags» binomial scientific name – “taxonomy:binomial=Bibio longipes”» genus name – “taxonomy:genus=Bibio”» family name – “taxonomy:family=Bibionidae”

» Additional data◊ common name◊ geographic information

» “geo:lat=”; “geo:lon=”» “geo:alt=”

First 42 pages – 1st Tier AToL

» Use EDIT Scratchpads for now

» Very limited information available at this time

» Need help from experts

» Literature

Additional 300 species pages

» Which species should we present?

» Every family with at least one species

» Your initiative is needed?

Long Term Goals – the other 156,000 …

» Data sources◊ taxonomic revisions – past & present

◊ identification matrices, e.g., Lucid FlyTree matrix

◊ phylogenetic matrices ?

» ZooTaxa & ZooKeys◊ EOL initiative that every published species will be get a species page