Introduction to EOL v2 for Crossroads

4. EOL aggregates and curates Scientific Databases, including BHL, GBIF, ALA, INBio, COL, Scratchpads, LifeDesks Scientific Journals Curate Aggregate Comment Rate, Collect eol.org Quality control, prioritization API Third party apps

5. Summarizing knowledge Not managing raw data

6. Many topics Morphology, conservation, behavior ecology, genomics links to educational resources links to identification resources links to citizen science projects

7. NCBI Taxonomy is framework Not the goal ITIS and COL

8. Contributions Images via Flickr or Wikimedia Text on the site Rating of objects Comments and other

10. v2 engagement: Collections

11. v2 engagement: Communities to share interests or to share work

12. • Collections as checklists • Third-party app using collections to instantly set up new mobile data entry • Could copy items & annotations to reflect actual observations

13. V2 engagement: Internationalization • Spanish – INBio, CONABIO • Arabic – Bibliotheca Alexandrina • Translatewiki for interfaces in other languages

14. v2: Incentives for improvement See updates tab http://eol.org/info/ priority_taxa_on_eol Image credit: Peter Förster

15. Volunteer curators • Assistant curators – No credentials needed other than real name – Have some powers – Will have reports on those powers • Full curators – Broad powers – Credentials include membership in society, referral from professionals, successful record as assistant curator • Master curators – Have power to manage other curators to ensure policies of inclusion and courtesy are followed

16. Take-home messages • EOL helps taxonomists and others reach broader audiences via engagement • All users invited to contribute • Path to full curator status • We are international and localizable • We have priorities and ways to assess rich content

17. Acknowledgements Funding from: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Alfred P. Sloane Foundation Smithsonian Institution Marine Biological Laboratory Harvard University and other funders and donors All our content partners and global partners, especially: INBio -- Costa Rica Bibliotheca Alexandrina -- Egypt CONABIO – Mexico GBIF Volunteer curators and individual contributors via Flickr, Wikimedia, and members of EOL

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Global – the whole worldAccess – free, re-usableKnowledge – synthesized, not rawLife on Earth – biological diversity
Milions of pages with a name at least – more than 3 million -- more than 2 million data objects distributed on those pages, including over 400,000 images
Our development of EOLv2 is following this path – in version one we developed the core ability to aggregate and curate data. In version 2 we are ensuring that
EOL is a giant mashup that merges information that were created elsewhere on its pages which are then available for curators (mostly credentialed scientists) to trust or untrust and rate, or for anybody to provide comments or tags.We’re partnering with over a hundred scientific databases as well as public conribution sites like Flickr and Wikipedia.100+ partner databases700 curators/1000s contributors/46,000 members2.8 million pages500 thousand pages with Creative Commons contentOver 2 million data objects and >1 million pages with links to research literatureTraffic in past year: 1.7 million unique users, 6.2 million page views
Collections might be practical, like helping people learn more about the foods that we eat, like posting lists of wanted things, like this list of microorganisms found by Jessica Green in the air ducts of office buildings.Help people put their information in context that are meaningful to them.Do you want crowds to help annotate items in the collection with a controlled vocabulary? Do you want to know the average riches of pages in the collection?
Some communities are groups of people in the same geographic location. Some communities have a purpose – people interested in mlultilingual content can help find it and develop more content in their languages. Others may have a common biological group of interest.We’re hoping that communities will feel empowered to find and improve the content that is of interest to them. Thus expanding curation or quality control is an important feature to
Compare to Dawn Field’s: Metadata richness index

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