@rdmpage

http://iphylo.blogspot.com

Digitisation

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/15930177695

GBIF.org 500+ million records

http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/658657

Not everybody likes digitisation

Digitisation is uneven

441,023 data points in Kenya…

None of the data about Kenya comes from Kenya

iNaturalist

EOL photos in Flickr

http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.92668

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6162/6176297334_48b2dc550a_z.jpg

Not everything can be digitised

45 million pages, all Open Access

100,000 articles from http://biostor.org (BHL)

1923 today

http://artlawjournal.com/mickey-mouse-keeps-changing-copyright-law/

Not everyone can access digital material

4 million articles

35 years in jail

$US 1M fine

Information wants to be free

Information wants to be expensive

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Knowing what we know

• There are known knowns, things we know that we know

• There are known unknowns, things we now know we don’t know

• But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know

known

unknown

knowns

unknowns

Mt Mabu on GBIF

http://bionames.org

Actionable information

Think this way for a while, and you notice a key factor: old data usually isn’t very interesting. You’ll be much more interested in what your users are doing right now than what they were doing a year ago. Sure, spotting trends in historical data might be cool, but in all likelihood it isn’t actionable. Today’s data is.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.10.002

GBIF.org 500+ million records

• Digitisation and access

• Knowing what we know

• Actionable information