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Cynthia Parr, Katja Schulz, and Jennifer HammockTDWG 2012Beijing, China 25 October 2012
Leveraging an international infrastructureCase studies from the Encyclopedia of Life
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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
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EOL aggregates and curates
Curate
CommentRate, Collect
eol.orgAggregate
Quality control
Third party apps
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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
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>1.1 million taxon pages with content from more than 200 providers, 1000s individuals
5 million content objects
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Total of 1,822,079 images 9,586 videos 28,569 sounds
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Number of text objectsSu
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ext o
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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
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Many user-created EOL collections are local checklists
Other checklistsn=1662
Geographical checklistsn=618
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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
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China
Australia
Dutch
South Africa
Costa Rica
Mexico Egypt
EOL interface now in 12 languagesVia translatewiki.org
India
Colombia
Peru
Taiwan
Norway
USA
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However…
Vernacular namesin 163 languages
Text description objectsin 17 languages
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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
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Full curators down-rate and non-curators up-rate
non-curators assistant curators full curators0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
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100%
54321
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Assistant (n=177) & full curators (n=984) are different
assistant curators
full/master curators
0%
10%
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30%
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common namesset exemplarratingtaxon associationsadd articlesclassificationstrust/untrust
33 actions per assistant curator227 actions per full curator
5816 223,639 actions
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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
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The case of the Far Side cartoon
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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
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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
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