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GBIF Briefing11 Aug 2010

Catalogue of Life

IUCN

GBIF

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Content providersDatabasesLifeDesksPublic contribution

CURATORS

COMMENTERSTAGGERS

Statistics

• 2.4 million pages

• ~80 content partners

• 1.7 million data objects

• 400,000 taxon pages

• 330,000 pages with vetted objects

• 430 curators/1000s contributors/~43,000 members

Pages with a vetted object

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 200

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200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

New features & projects

API – see http://www.eol.org/api

Content summaries

Global partners

EOL Global Partners

China

Australia

Dutch

South Africa

Central America

US Federal Pan-Arab

Norway

Integrated US federal biodiversity system

• 250,000 occurrence points via GBIF

• >100 data layers from EPA, NASA, USGSe.g. land use, soil type,

climate, nutrient deposition, air quality, water quality

Pending: Species ranges from USFWS and USGS

Integrated Earth

Species mashups• ITIS names hierarchy

• EOL images & descriptions

• NatureServ descriptions

Pending: Links to collections data, other image sources

8/10/10

Integrated US federal biodiversity system

Future plans

Content plan/Mini-grants

Exploring relationship with IPT

Launch v2 in June 2011e.g. maps tab,Lists/Missions

towards NA EOL

Themes, e.g. Marine

90% of 230,000 marine species by 2013

78,000 pages with content so far, about 1/3

BHL status

43,047 titles, 31,243,922 pages

890,000 EOL pages with links to BHL literature (of which 670K have no other text)

User survey with BHL Europe

– 1000 respondents

– New features

Signed: BHL Australia and BHL China