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Using Drupal Taxonomy to Catalog all Organisms on Earth Encyclopedia Of Life Distribution Profiles Taxonomy Enhancements Taxonomy Servers Drupal in Research

Encyclopedia Of Life

Distribution Profiles

Taxonomy Enhancements

Taxonomy Servers

Drupal in Research

I'm Dan (dman@drupal.org) Biosecurity.govt.nz Sorted.org.nz The Vintage Aviator import_html Relationship (RDF) imagecache_actions taxonomy_xml

Biosecurity.govt.nz

Sorted.org.nz

The Vintage Aviator

import_html

Relationship (RDF)

imagecache_actions

taxonomy_xml

EOL – Taxonomy Code Sprint Chicago, Sept 08 “Field Museum” of Natural History Invited Drupal Coders UK, Ireland, US, Canada Taxonomists, Biologists

Chicago, Sept 08

“Field Museum” of Natural History

Invited Drupal Coders

UK, Ireland, US, Canada

Taxonomists, Biologists

Encyclopedia of Life - EOL All Life on Earth 1.8-7? Million Taxons Partners: MacArthur Foundation Harvard Smithsonion Global Biodiversity Information Facility Catalog of Life E. O. Wilson – TED Prize 2007

All Life on Earth

1.8-7? Million Taxons

Partners:

MacArthur Foundation

Harvard

Smithsonion

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Catalog of Life

E. O. Wilson – TED Prize 2007

Video – 3 minutes

Drupal - “LifeDesks” Distributed personal Drupal sites Each Researcher has their own shard Drupal to share taxonomy, then annotate resources.

Distributed personal Drupal sites

Each Researcher has their own shard

Drupal to share taxonomy, then annotate resources.

Drupal because... Drupal “does” taxonomy But not like this! Drupal does everything else No distribution / licensing problems Hosted (initially) Personal copies (possible) Used it before

Drupal “does” taxonomy

But not like this!

Drupal does everything else

No distribution / licensing problems

Hosted (initially)

Personal copies (possible)

Used it before

Drupal Didn't... Allow annotated Taxonomy terms Citations, GUIDs, extra (Rank) Scale! Import/Export/Share Manage large trees

Allow annotated Taxonomy terms

Citations, GUIDs, extra (Rank)

Scale!

Import/Export/Share

Manage large trees

Drupal Can... Allow annotated Taxonomy terms Citations, GUIDs, extra (Rank) taxonomy enhancer, node auto term (+) Scale! Actualized Paths + core improvements Import/Export/Share Taxonomy XML (+CSV, RDF) Manage large trees Taxonomy Manager + core UI

Allow annotated Taxonomy terms

Citations, GUIDs, extra (Rank) taxonomy enhancer, node auto term (+)

Scale! Actualized Paths + core improvements

Import/Export/Share Taxonomy XML (+CSV, RDF)

Manage large trees Taxonomy Manager + core UI

- DEMO - Install profile – bootstrapping content types Batch Process – Form API/ Batch API NAT – Terms as nodes and nodes as terms CCK fields for terms! Each Drupal site can also be a taxonomy server Web services as taxonomy sources taxonomy_xml on d.o. CVS NZGLS Thesauri, Dewey Decimal, International Press Metadata Vocabulary

Install profile – bootstrapping content types

Batch Process – Form API/ Batch API

NAT – Terms as nodes and nodes as terms

CCK fields for terms!

Each Drupal site can also be a taxonomy server

Web services as taxonomy sources

taxonomy_xml on d.o. CVS

NZGLS Thesauri, Dewey Decimal, International Press Metadata Vocabulary