Presented at the Biodiversity Information Standards (Taxonomic Databases Working Group) 2013 meeting in Florence, Italy on 29 October 2013. Essentially, an introduction to the new trait repository of Encyclopedia of Life.
3. EOL Today
Milestones in 2013
• 1.3 million species
pages with content
• 250+ content
providers
• 3.3 million unique
annual visitors from
235 countries
4. Thousands of text objects
0
Subject of text object
Distribution
Molecular Biology
Combined Topics
Type Information
Habitat
Conservation Status
200
400
600
800
1000
5. The road to TraitBank
In second year of 2 year project:
Marine
Expert Audience
Conservation science
Virtuoso triple store
<scientific name> <hasAvgBodyMass in g> <value>
<scientific name> <preysOn> <scientific name>
Beta testing NOW for public launch early 2014
21 datasets with 2.8 million data records for 520,000 taxa
Harvest, display, curate, search, download
Up soon
More data
Machine access
Direct contribution, upload
From text mining
From literature tables
From data papers
From databases
6. Data model for Traits
Vernacular Name
extension
Media extension
(with Audubon Core)
MeasurementType
MeasurementValue
New
class
References
extension
AssociationType
Agents extension
7. Uploading Darwin Core Archives
Common names
Taxa
References
MeasurementsOrFacts Associations Events Occurrences
15. Participate
Public beta now – send me EOL login ASAP
Recommend structured data – ANYTIME
Provide feedback at demo on Wednesday 5:30pm
Nathan Wilson & I talking more about semantics and
interoperability on Friday morning 11:36
@cydparr
parrc@si.edu
16. Research Sprint proposals due Nov 15
• 4 day workshop at NESCent
• Use BHL or EOL and other sources to tackle
biological questions
• Will match each awardee with informatics
expert (contact me, prefer BHL/EOL API or
content partner experience)
@cydparr
parrc@si.edu
Thanks to Lounsbery Foundation & David Rubenstein
17. Thanks
github.com/eol
Cynthia Parr
Chief Scientist @eol
@cydparr parrc@si.edu
Co-authors: Patrick Leary, Jennifer Hammock, Katja Schulz, Nathan Wilson
Contributors
Image credits
Our content partners
Michal Koupy and biolib.cz
Thousands of individual
Jenny from Taipei
contributors, and hundreds of
Janet Hinshaw, UMMZ
volunteer curators
Ken-ichi Ueda
EOL Science Advisors
msr
Private beta survey respondents
Funding
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Smithsonian Institution
David Rubenstein
Marine Biological Laboratory
Lounsbery Foundation
Harvard University