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Presentation to the Taxonomic Databases Working Group 2012 meeting on 25 October 2012
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@cydparr @eol
Cynthia Parr, Katja Schulz, and Jennifer HammockTDWG 2012Beijing, China 25 October 2012
Leveraging an international infrastructureCase studies from the Encyclopedia of Life
Outline
• Briefly, who are we and why are we here?• The information landscape of species descriptions • Thoughts for the future
Note: Rubenstein Fellows Proposals are due 15 NovemberSee http://eol.org/info/Rubenstein_2013_competition
EOL aggregates and curates
Curate
CommentRate, Collect
eol.orgAggregate
Quality control
Third party apps
Why survey the landscape?
• Improve standards and set goals• Prepare for text mining• Learn how best to support quality control• Baseline for improving multilingual, open
content
• Because we can
>1.1 million taxon pages with content from more than 200 providers, 1000s individuals
5 million content objects
Total of 1,822,079 images 9,586 videos 28,569 sounds
Number of text objectsSu
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ext o
bjec
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DistributionMultiple topics
TypeInformationMolecularBiology
HabitatConservationStatus
ThreatsMorphology
ConservationManagement
TrendsSize
AssociationsUses
TrophicStrategyCyclicity & Life Cycle
PopulationBiologyReproduction
MigrationTaxonomy
LifeExpectancyIdentification
BehaviourEcology
Diseases
- 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000 800,000
Many user-created EOL collections are local checklists
Other checklistsn=1662
Geographical checklistsn=618
License restrictions vary by object typen=~5 million
text images maps videos sounds0%
10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
public domaincc-bycc-by-sacc-by-nccc-by-nc-sa
n=~3 million
China
Australia
Dutch
South Africa
Costa Rica
Mexico Egypt
EOL interface now in 12 languagesVia translatewiki.org
India
Colombia
Peru
Taiwan
Norway
USA
However…
Vernacular namesin 163 languages
Text description objectsin 17 languages
Some providers get higher ratings than others
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
5 stars4 stars3 stars2 stars1 star
Total n = 154,308 rating actionsShowing only those 17 providers who got at least 1000 ratings
Full curators down-rate and non-curators up-rate
non-curators assistant curators full curators0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
54321
Assistant (n=177) & full curators (n=984) are different
assistant curators
full/master curators
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
common namesset exemplarratingtaxon associationsadd articlesclassificationstrust/untrust
33 actions per assistant curator227 actions per full curator
5816 223,639 actions
The case of “Panisopis”
Quality control case studies
1. Rod spots the error on EOL and posts about it on his blog2. Cyndy reads the blog and posts it as a comment on EOL3. The EOL comment gets sent to ITIS automatically 4. ITIS fixes its database
5. EOL hasn’t yet updated from ITIS
The case of the Far Side cartoon
Conclusions
• We’ve made a lot of progress– Large repository, many subjects– Great start on collections/checklists– Lots of CC-licenses– Lot of international partnerships and interface
languages– Active curators
• We’ve got plenty of room for more– Please share your ideas for the future
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Harvard University, David Rubenstein, and other funders and donorsAll our users, content provider & global partners
especially the Chinese Academy of SciencesEOL staff
@cydparr @eol
eol.org
Thanks to