Jim EdwardsPaddy PattersonCyndy Parr

CoML Synthesis meetingLong Beach, CA1 February 2009

Encyclopedia of Life—10 year goals• Assemble infinitely expandable web pages for all known

species (~ 2 million)– With wide range of content providers (scientific community to general

public)

– Providers retain control of content and are acknowledged on site

• Digitize major component of biodiversity literature– >13 million pages of literature pages digitized so far

• Use pages to synthesize new knowledge

• Incorporate EOL into school curricula and citizen science

• Develop Web 2.0–style social participation– e.g. EOL Flickr group, iPhone app.

EOL Portal (www.eol.org)• Now serving >90,000 vetted species pages

• plus 1.1 million base pages

• Users can tag photos and comment on any data object• Biogeographic data (maps) from OBIS through GBIF

Marine biodiversity theme• Goal: pages for 90% of marine species in 4 years• Is made possible because of WoRMS

• Have just concluded MOU with WoRMS• WoRMS-provided data to start appearing on portal soon

• Will be hiring EOL marine coordinator• Be liaison with marine community• Identify sources of marine species content• Help content providers serve their data• Hired through Smithsonian• Work in collaboration with CoML

Other information• Curatorial network

– See description on EOL site• EOL Fellows

– Partial salary support to assemble species-pages content– Pilot project at Smithsonian, expect to expand world-wide in late

2009• Article repository

– Site where communities can place pdfs– YouTube-like takedown policy—will remove pdf if copyright

holder complains

• Automatic population of species pages with information on newly published species• Working with ZooKeys, ZooTaxa and Plazi

Invitation

• Information session Tuesday, 6-7 pm, Queens Salon

• Cyndy Parr and Paddy Patterson• How to contribute content to EOL• New tool for assembling data

Implementing the integrated global biodiversity information framework

• e-Biosphere 09– International biodiversity informatics conference,

London, 1-5 June 2009– Develop a roadmap for how the biodiversity

informatics projects can/will interoperate– Seek feedback from users– Several sessions for users to describe what kinds of

tools and services they want and need– Bursaries available for individuals from developing

countries

http://www.eol.org/files/pdfs/docs/EOL_Curatorial_Network_Plan.pdf