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… summaries can be data, too.Erosaria caputserpentisSerpent's Head Cowrie

Depth range based on 51 specimens in 2 taxa.Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 40 samples.

Environmental ranges Depth range (m): -5 - 67 Temperature range (°C): 23.011 - 28.496 Nitrate (umol/L): 0.048 - 0.923 Salinity (PPS): 33.821 - 35.837 Oxygen (ml/l): 4.349 - 4.825 Phosphate (umol/l): 0.088 - 0.228 Silicate (umol/l): 0.983 - 4.026

From Moorea Biocode

From GBIFFrom OBIS

Erosaria caputserpentisSerpent's Head Cowrie

Salinity envelope (n=40)

From OBIS

Citation of Biodiversity Heritage Library

BHL assigned 40,000 Digital Object Identifiers to monograph titles In 5 months ending March 2012, there were 5,333 resolution attempts (i.e. uses) of the DOIs for 4,562 unique titles.

From Martin Kalfatovic

Using EOL collections to get computable data

Step 1: Search on EOL for organisms with characteristics of interest. Add each one to an EOL collection. Step 2: Write a program using EOL API methods to retrieve the external database identifiers for the species in that collection.Step 3: Add to your program code to retrieve data using external database APIs.Step 4: Analyze, rinse, repeat.

From Arthur Chapman

Crowd-sourcing for computable data

Lovell and Libby Langstroth, Calphotos Foodwebs.org

We can do morePhylogenetic tree challenge

http://eol.org/info/tree_challengeFree trip to iEvoBio, deadline 15 April

Computable data challengehttp://eol.org/info/data_challenge$50,000, deadline 22 May

Semantic reasoning workshop, in September

The Smithsonian’s Phenotype Repository or Gateway?

Summing up• EOL offers powerful aggregating, summarizing,

searching, curating, and crowd-sourcing features• EOL content is already usable for research• Enhancements to EOL for science research are

underway

What questions do you want to answer?What data or features do you need?

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