1. Encyclopedia of Life Redefining Publication and Access to the Primary Literature David P. Shorthouse Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, MA

2. Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth, available everywhere by single access on command. The page contains the scientific name of the species, a pictorial or genomic presentation of the primary type specimen on which its name is based, and a summary of its diagnostic traits. The page opens out directly or by linkage with other databases such as ARKive, Ecoport, and GenBank. It comprises a summary of everything known about the species’ genome, proteome, geographic distribution, phylogenetic position, habitat, ecological relationships, and, not least, its perceived practical importance for humanity.

3. Steering Committee Biodiversity Heritage Library Executive Smithsonian Marine Biological Laboratory Biodiversity Informatics Atlas of Living Australia Missouri Botanical Garden Plants Harvard University Education and outreach Field Museum Research Community MacArthur Foundation Sloan Foundation

6. David “Paddy” Patterson Peter Mangiafico Patrick Leary David Shorthouse Kristen Lans Pam Fournier Alexey Shipunov Vitthal Kudal Jeremy Rice Dimitry Mozzherin Anne Thessen

7. Exemplar Pages Anne Pringle • Brian Farrell • Alta Buden • Margaret Thayer • Michael Ashburner • Christy Geraci • Lilibeth Miranda • Senjie Lin Rick Wilkerson Jonathan Losos • David Langor • David Shorthouse • Mary Hennen • Judy Stoffer • George Yatskievych • Kendra Buresch Tonia Hsieh • David Patterson • Christian Thompson • Rod Eastwood • Jerry Louton • Seth Bordenstein Rich Pyle • Roger Hanlon • Tamara ClARKMWendy Applequist • Grace Servat • Bob Magill • Sandy Knapp • Vicki Funk

8. Exemplar Process Current Rate ≈ 100 pages / year

11. WHAT? Digitize the core literature of biodiversity. Full works, not bits & pieces. Open Access : all content can be repurposed, reused, reformatted. Congruent : must fit in to a dynamic knowledge ecology.

13. Names are Messy Aa paleacea Limulus polyphemus Kiwa hirsuta Osedax frankpressi Kingia australis Pieris japonica Pieris rapae Trypanosoma brucei Homo sapiens

14. More than One Meaning (Polysemes) Aotus trivirgatus Aotus Illiger 1811 Aotus Aotus Smith 1805 Aotus ericoides . Resolve with intelligent disambiguation Authority, species, contextual data Contextual data Primate Monkey Eyes Food Panama Aotus nancymaae Contextual data legume plant flower Mirbeliea Australia Aotus mollis Anorexia nervosa Habeas corpus Etcetera etcetera

15. Many names for one species… Koko Горилла Guerilla Eastern Lowland Gorilla Gorilla graueri Gorilla berengei Gorilla beringei Matschie Gorilla beringei mikenensis King kong Gorilla gorilla Virunga Gorila Gorille Mountain gorilla 大猩猩 ゴリラ

17. Licensing Policy for Content Partners All information currently in the public domain will remain in the public domain. Content providers are required to adopt a Creative Commons license for the information that they serve through the EOL. Except for public-domain content, the default and preferred license is CC-BY Content providers who request some restrictions on re-use of their information may select: CC-BY-SA CC-BY-NC CC-BY-NC-SA To the greatest extent possible, the Encyclopedia of Life promotes an open-source, open-access approach. The EOL will provide attribution information for all content that it serves. EOL will also indicate the Creative Commons license attached to each object (text, structured data, graphics, multimedia, etc.). V5.0 5 April 2008

21. What’s in My Backyard? <?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;windows-1252&quot;?> <!--Zoom Search Engine Version 5.0 (1002) PRO--> <rss version=&quot;2.0&quot; xmlns:opensearch=&quot;http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/&quot; xmlns:zoom=&quot;http://www.wrensoft/zoom/response/5.0/schema/&quot;> <channel> <title>Nearctic Spider Database</title> <description>Search species pages in The Nearctic Spider Database</description> <link>http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.org/data/canada_spiders/</link> <opensearch:link rel=&quot;search&quot; href=&quot;./data/canada_spiders/search/search.xml“ type=&quot;application/opensearchdescription+xml&quot; /> <zoom:searchquery>pardosa moesta</zoom:searchquery> <zoom:searchcategory>All</zoom:searchcategory> <opensearch:totalResults>27</opensearch:totalResults> <opensearch:startIndex>10</opensearch:startIndex> <opensearch:itemsPerPage>10</opensearch:itemsPerPage> <item> ............ Can I Share or Get Help? Can I Track My Searches? OpenSearch Can I Grab That Image? HTML (JavaScript) & bbCode Gadgets

22. Taxa-Centric Approach

27. The Future Raw data Correlations Triple store Filters: Faceted searches: What was that tree with pink flowers that we saw in Washington last May? Visualizations