1. EOL species pages:
from 42 pages to 156,000 species pages
Torsten Dikow
Biodiversity Synthesis Center
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA

2. The making of species pages
» Present species pages in both – EDIT and EOL
» Scratchpads (EDIT) & LifeDesk (EOL) both based on Drupal (content
management software) http://drupal.org/

3. Share photos with EOL through flickr group
http://flickr.com/groups/806927@N20/
» Rules
◊ image set to public
◊ image is licensed with public domain or CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-
SA, CC-BY-NC-SA http://creativecommons.org/about/license/
◊ image is tagged using machine tags
» binomial scientific name – “taxonomy:binomial=Bibio longipes”
» genus name – “taxonomy:genus=Bibio”
» family name – “taxonomy:family=Bibionidae”
» Additional data
◊ common name
◊ geographic information
» “geo:lat=”; “geo:lon=”
» “geo:alt=”

4. First 42 pages – 1st Tier AToL
» Use EDIT Scratchpads for now
» Very limited information available at this time
» Need help from experts
» Literature

5. Additional 300 species pages
» Which species should we present?
» Every family with at least one species
» Your initiative is needed?

6. Long Term Goals – the other 156,000 …
» Data sources
◊ taxonomic revisions – past & present
◊ identification matrices, e.g., Lucid FlyTree matrix
◊ phylogenetic matrices ?
» ZooTaxa & ZooKeys
◊ EOL initiative that every published species will be get a species
page