Presented in EOL Rubenstein Fellows orientation workshop 19 March 2010. Explains how classifications are obtained and used in EOL.

2. Millions of content objects, some with invalid names

3. Disagreement among taxonomists

4. Propagation of errors

5. Lack of completeness

6. Need a consensus browsing hierarchy

7. Need quality

9. What if we get content that is not in Catalogue of Life? 575,000!

12. Alternate browsing classifications

13. Alternate browsing classifications

15. Find source of problems (e.g. Flickr), urge them to fix

16. Report to COLP and ITIS

17. Add comments on offending object, or explanatory text object on EOL page

19. Make non-COL names easier to navigate to while browsing

20. Hope that COL gets more dynamic, and

21. GNA/GNITE

24. Result returned to CLR, available to EOL or 3rd parties for re-use Web and stand-alone

25. The toolkit will extend LifeDesks / ScratchPads taxonomic editor

26. Schedule GNITE v 1 expected July, but seeking beta testers We will create a composite classification from parts we have assembled in GNA CLR, and this will provide raw materials for others to work with