tdikow lifedesk presentation may 2010

LifeDesk: Managing and Sharing Biodiversity Research on the Web

Torsten Dikow

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

“The Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world” (www.eol.org)

www.eol.org blog.eol.org

Encyclopedia of Life – EOL

◊ 1.8 Million species pages◊ A web-site for every species that roams or roamed the earth◊ Freely available – Customizable by user – Common portal

general layout of an EOL page

Biodiversity Heritage Library – BHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org

main pageBHL

Support provided by EOL – Biodiversity Synthesis Center

◊ Funding for meetings and workshops on diverse topics

◊ next deadlines 1 July 2010, 1 November 2010

BioSynC main page

synthesis.eol.org

LifeDesk www.lifedesks.org

LifeDesk main page

Drupal – open source content management platform

Use of Drupal:

BBC

White House.govCNN

NASANATO

Greenpeace

United NationsFedEx

major newspapers

...

www.scratchpads.eu

Drupal – also being used by Scratchpads

LifeDesk – Public Access – leptogastrinae.lifedesks.org

LifeDesk – Scientist Access

LifeDesk – My Account & Site Settings

• change color scheme

• change logo

• update your personal account

LifeDesk – Site Settings

Customization

◊ botanical and zoological nomenclatorial differences

◊ user selects taxonomic ranks to be used◊ taxonomic relationships

• synonymy • availability

• incorrect spelling

LifeDesk – Classification editor

LifeDesk – Classification editor

LifeDesk – Creating Content

LifeDesk – Image Import

LifeDesk – Taxon Pages

Chapter definitions follow TDWG standard

show ...

◊ text entered here

◊ images from gallery◊ taxonomy / classification

◊ references / bibliography

LifeDesk – Bibliography

or import

◊ BibTex

◊ EndNote◊ RIS

◊ MARC

LifeDesk – EOL Partnership

EOL species page

http://leptogastrinae.lifedesks.org/pages/1797

http://www.eol.org/pages/770905

Species page in LifeDesk

Species page on EOL

LifeDesk – Use of ...◊ LifeDesk = best way to upload species information to EOL Your participation is needed to improve EOL !

◊ LifeDesk = infrastructure for collaboration online

◊ LifeDesk = great outreach component for NSF applications

◊ LifeDesk modules available for download (http://www.lifedesks.org/modules)

• develop your own Drupal web presence • still provide content to the EOL

◊ functionality improved regularly (http://www.lifedesks.org/newfeatures)

• bulk upload of text or images

◊ http://synthesis.eol.org/users/tdikow

Thank You ...◊ LifeDesk developer David Shorthouse

◊ Encyclopedia of Life funding sources & BioSynC

◊ NSF REVSYS (DEB-0919333)