A talk presented January 20, 2013 in the Indo-US Joint Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment in Bangalore, India.
This document provides an overview of existing web archives and their use for research. It discusses several major web archives including the Internet Archive, Common Crawl, Pandora Archive, and national archives. For each, it describes their size and collection strategies, as well as positives and negatives for research use. The talk concludes with examples of how existing web archives in Australia are being used for research.
This document discusses various strategies and resources for archiving internet content for research purposes. It describes several existing large-scale web archives like the Internet Archive and Common Crawl, as well as national and institutional archives. It also outlines how researchers can collect targeted web archives using open-source tools or subscription-based services.
Digitalización de literatura de Biodiversidad: an Overview of the Biodiversit...Martin Kalfatovic
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library focused on biodiversity literature. It provides details on the BHL's member institutions, organizational structure, content selection and digitization processes, metadata standards, and online platform. The BHL aims to make biodiversity literature from its member institutions openly available online by digitizing books and journals, generating metadata, and developing tools for access and discovery.
uBio presentation to Species 2000 May 2004David Remsen
This document describes a project to create a Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (uBio) to address the problems of multiple names and classifications for biological entities. It was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and developed by the MBL/WHOI Library. uBio consists of a Taxonomic Name Server (TNS) with a NameBank and ClassificationBank to provide taxonomic metadata and account for usage. It includes a network service with search and retrieval methods and logs usage to attribute data to contributing sources. The goal is to increase access to biological information by integrating distributed data sources.
A empresa de tecnologia anunciou um novo smartphone com câmera aprimorada, processador mais rápido e bateria de maior duração. O dispositivo também possui tela maior e armazenamento expansível, com preço sugerido a partir de $799. Analistas esperam que o aparelho ajude a empresa a aumentar sua participação no competitivo mercado de smartphones.
Ag Data Commons: A new USDA catalog and repository for agricultural research ...Cyndy Parr
The document summarizes the USDA's Ag Data Commons, a new catalog and repository for agricultural research data. It provides an overview of the National Agricultural Library's Knowledge Services Division, which manages the Ag Data Commons. Key points include that the Ag Data Commons provides data repository, curation, and management services; supports the open data initiative; and has grown from a prototype in 2015 to include almost 200 datasets from over 35 non-NAL users in its pilot phase in 2016. The goal is for the Ag Data Commons to become a centralized catalog and repository for open agricultural research data.
This document provides an overview of existing web archives and their use for research. It discusses several major web archives including the Internet Archive, Common Crawl, Pandora Archive, and national archives. For each, it describes their size and collection strategies, as well as positives and negatives for research use. The talk concludes with examples of how existing web archives in Australia are being used for research.
This document discusses various strategies and resources for archiving internet content for research purposes. It describes several existing large-scale web archives like the Internet Archive and Common Crawl, as well as national and institutional archives. It also outlines how researchers can collect targeted web archives using open-source tools or subscription-based services.
Digitalización de literatura de Biodiversidad: an Overview of the Biodiversit...Martin Kalfatovic
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library focused on biodiversity literature. It provides details on the BHL's member institutions, organizational structure, content selection and digitization processes, metadata standards, and online platform. The BHL aims to make biodiversity literature from its member institutions openly available online by digitizing books and journals, generating metadata, and developing tools for access and discovery.
uBio presentation to Species 2000 May 2004David Remsen
This document describes a project to create a Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (uBio) to address the problems of multiple names and classifications for biological entities. It was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and developed by the MBL/WHOI Library. uBio consists of a Taxonomic Name Server (TNS) with a NameBank and ClassificationBank to provide taxonomic metadata and account for usage. It includes a network service with search and retrieval methods and logs usage to attribute data to contributing sources. The goal is to increase access to biological information by integrating distributed data sources.
A empresa de tecnologia anunciou um novo smartphone com câmera aprimorada, processador mais rápido e bateria de maior duração. O dispositivo também possui tela maior e armazenamento expansível, com preço sugerido a partir de $799. Analistas esperam que o aparelho ajude a empresa a aumentar sua participação no competitivo mercado de smartphones.
Ag Data Commons: A new USDA catalog and repository for agricultural research ...Cyndy Parr
The document summarizes the USDA's Ag Data Commons, a new catalog and repository for agricultural research data. It provides an overview of the National Agricultural Library's Knowledge Services Division, which manages the Ag Data Commons. Key points include that the Ag Data Commons provides data repository, curation, and management services; supports the open data initiative; and has grown from a prototype in 2015 to include almost 200 datasets from over 35 non-NAL users in its pilot phase in 2016. The goal is for the Ag Data Commons to become a centralized catalog and repository for open agricultural research data.
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project aims to provide a comprehensive online resource for information about all 1.9 million named species. It is funded by several foundations and institutions and features content from various partners. Users can contribute information like photos, videos and text. Contributions are reviewed by curators who verify information and improve pages. The site currently has over 400,000 pages with vetted content from over 1.7 million objects. Regional EOL sites serve local language needs and collaborate internationally to share and translate content. All information is available through open access licensing.
Ontology and Ontology Libraries: a critical studyDebashisnaskar
This document provides an overview of ontology and ontology libraries. It discusses what ontologies are, languages for expressing ontologies like OWL, and tools for building ontologies such as Protégé. It also examines several ontology libraries including BioPortal for biomedical ontologies, OBO Foundry, oeGov for e-government, and TONES for general ontologies. Evaluation criteria for comparing ontology libraries and future challenges and opportunities are also reviewed.
This document provides an overview of tools available for contributors to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). It describes how the scientific community can assemble and authenticate species information as curators. It also explains how students, teachers and enthusiasts can submit photos, videos and other species data. It outlines tools like LifeDesks for curators and the content partner registry for sharing data with EOL. It details how the public can contribute text, images and videos from sites like Flickr and how non-expert contributions are marked as unreviewed. It describes the role of EOL curators in trusting/untrusting content and adding common names. It provides statistics on the curator network and encourages others to sign up.
Ontology and Ontology Libraries: a Critical StudyDebashisnaskar
The concept of digital library revolutionized its popularity with the development of networking technology. Digital library stores various kind of documents in digitized format that enables user smooth access to these documents at subsidized costs. In the recent past, a similar concept i.e., ontology library has gained popularity among the communities like semantic web, artificial intelligence, information science, philosophy, linguistics, and so forth.
The document discusses plans for an updated version (EOLv2) of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) website. EOLv2 will have a global scope, aggregate scientific data from various sources, engage diverse audiences through personalization and contextualization, and allow contributions from images, text, and comments. It aims to make taxonomic knowledge more accessible through internationalization, collections, communities, and incentives for improvement. Funding comes from various foundations and institutions, and content is provided through partnerships with scientific organizations and individual volunteers worldwide.
The document provides an overview of resources and services available at the Heterick Memorial Library, including knowledgeable librarians available over 60 hours a week, access to over 250 databases and 10,000 online journals, and research tools like catalogs, databases, and interlibrary loan to assist students in finding necessary resources for their academic work.
Open access (OA) literature is digital content that is available online for free, without restrictions on use or redistribution. There are two main types of OA: self-archiving content in repositories (green OA) and publishing in OA journals (gold OA). Major statements on OA include the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the Bethesda Statement. Institutional and disciplinary repositories archive and provide access to scholarly works. Directories like the Directory of Open Access Journals and the Open Access Directory help locate OA content and information. Benefits of OA include wider dissemination of research and potential citation advantages, while challenges include issues around funding models and publisher resistance.
Global content summit: Overview, content partnering, richnessCyndy Parr
These are Cyndy Parr's presentations at the EOL Global Partner Summit, starting with an overview of the meeting, and including an overview of how we set up content partnerships, and how we calculate and use page richness scores.
FAIR data requires FAIR ontologies and standards. There has been an explosion in the number of ontologies but they are difficult to identify and manage due to a lack of consistent metadata. Existing ontology metadata practices were reviewed, finding that developers use various metadata vocabularies inconsistently and important ontology-specific metadata is underused. Ontology repositories help make ontologies more FAIR by providing interfaces for publishing, accessing, and reusing ontologies and their metadata. The presentation focuses on the NCBO BioPortal as an example ontology repository and how its technologies have been adopted by other repositories. Improving ontology metadata will help comprehension of the ontology landscape; a new AgroPortal metadata model was created to better describe ontologies and their
Europeana libraries a pan European aggregatorLIBER Europe
This document summarizes a presentation about Europeana Libraries, a project to build a pan-European digital library aggregator. The project will add over 5 million digital objects from 19 research and university libraries to Europeana. It aims to provide standardized metadata and an interface designed for researchers. A sustainable business model is needed as some institutions currently feed content through multiple aggregators. The presentation also discusses LIBER's role in advocating for European research libraries and its portfolio of EU projects.
= Finding a Good Ontology: The Open Ontology Repository Initiative =
Can you find a good ontology to use or extend for your application?
Building on previous registry and repository efforts, the Open Ontology Repository Initiative is a community effort developing open source software for finding, using, and maintaining open source and other ontologies.
The initial implementation of OOR is based on BioPortal (http://bioportal.bioontology.org), which is used to access and share ontologies that are actively used in biomedical communities and currently supports OWL, OBO, and Protege ontologies, LexGrid and RRF vocabularies, and ontology mapping. BioPortal has been developed by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology with support from the NIH Roadmap, but its infrastructure is domain-independent and being extended in various directions.
This presentation will include the following:
* A demonstration of the current public OOR instance
* OOR requirements and challenges
* On-going and planned development efforts (Common Logic support, federation, gatekeeping, provenance, governance, etc.)
* Details on how you can become involved
Resource and Metadata Management with a Linked Data perspectiveHannes Ebner
This document summarizes a presentation on resource and metadata management from a linked data perspective. It discusses projects like Organic.Edunet that deal with heterogeneous metadata from multiple standards and stakeholders. It also outlines the conceptual overview of the EntryStore system for managing linked data, including named graphs, REST API, ACLs, harvesting, querying, and SPARQL. Some lessons learned are around ontologies being difficult for annotators to grasp, the need for clear licensing of data versus metadata, and the complexity involved in practical implementation at large scale.
Beyond the Pay Wall!: Repositories as sources of supplyGaz Johnson
This presentation was aimed at those staff working in document supply and interlending who want to know more about the practical steps they can take to find free open access quality versions of works scattered in the repositories around the world.
This presentation was presented June 28th 2011 at the Interlend 2011 conference, Durham UK, for members of the Forum for Interlending.
This document provides an overview and instructions for conducting research and creating an annotated bibliography for an English writing seminar course. It discusses researching topics using library resources such as databases, books, and interlibrary loans. It explains how to construct an annotated bibliography and definition essay. Guidance is provided on evaluating information sources and managing references with bibliographic citation software.
Help your users to discover your content with OpenAthens and Link ResolversEduserv
Do your patrons search Google or PubMed and find they can’t access resources in the library collection? Frustrated that users don’t access resources from your library Intranet? Discover how to direct patrons to your subscribed material onsite and off-site using OpenAthens and link resolvers. See how easy it can be!
Watch the presentation here: http://youtu.be/_x3ziyB0l3o
Webinar presentation by Cyndy Parr and Erin Antognoli hosted by Hunger Solutions Institute (HSI) and Presidents United to Solve Hunger (PUSH) at Auburn University on April 25, 2019.
The Ag Data Commons is a platform for aggregating, cataloging, and sharing agricultural data. It harvests metadata from various federal and university repositories to make data more discoverable without duplication of submission efforts. Currently it catalogs open datasets and links them to related literature. In the future, it aims to harvest more funding information and methodological details to better link datasets to associated research articles and grants. The goal is to organize agricultural data according to shared standards to make it fully machine-readable and reusable to support further research and decision-making.
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project aims to provide a comprehensive online resource for information about all 1.9 million named species. It is funded by several foundations and institutions and features content from various partners. Users can contribute information like photos, videos and text. Contributions are reviewed by curators who verify information and improve pages. The site currently has over 400,000 pages with vetted content from over 1.7 million objects. Regional EOL sites serve local language needs and collaborate internationally to share and translate content. All information is available through open access licensing.
Ontology and Ontology Libraries: a critical studyDebashisnaskar
This document provides an overview of ontology and ontology libraries. It discusses what ontologies are, languages for expressing ontologies like OWL, and tools for building ontologies such as Protégé. It also examines several ontology libraries including BioPortal for biomedical ontologies, OBO Foundry, oeGov for e-government, and TONES for general ontologies. Evaluation criteria for comparing ontology libraries and future challenges and opportunities are also reviewed.
This document provides an overview of tools available for contributors to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). It describes how the scientific community can assemble and authenticate species information as curators. It also explains how students, teachers and enthusiasts can submit photos, videos and other species data. It outlines tools like LifeDesks for curators and the content partner registry for sharing data with EOL. It details how the public can contribute text, images and videos from sites like Flickr and how non-expert contributions are marked as unreviewed. It describes the role of EOL curators in trusting/untrusting content and adding common names. It provides statistics on the curator network and encourages others to sign up.
Ontology and Ontology Libraries: a Critical StudyDebashisnaskar
The concept of digital library revolutionized its popularity with the development of networking technology. Digital library stores various kind of documents in digitized format that enables user smooth access to these documents at subsidized costs. In the recent past, a similar concept i.e., ontology library has gained popularity among the communities like semantic web, artificial intelligence, information science, philosophy, linguistics, and so forth.
The document discusses plans for an updated version (EOLv2) of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) website. EOLv2 will have a global scope, aggregate scientific data from various sources, engage diverse audiences through personalization and contextualization, and allow contributions from images, text, and comments. It aims to make taxonomic knowledge more accessible through internationalization, collections, communities, and incentives for improvement. Funding comes from various foundations and institutions, and content is provided through partnerships with scientific organizations and individual volunteers worldwide.
The document provides an overview of resources and services available at the Heterick Memorial Library, including knowledgeable librarians available over 60 hours a week, access to over 250 databases and 10,000 online journals, and research tools like catalogs, databases, and interlibrary loan to assist students in finding necessary resources for their academic work.
Open access (OA) literature is digital content that is available online for free, without restrictions on use or redistribution. There are two main types of OA: self-archiving content in repositories (green OA) and publishing in OA journals (gold OA). Major statements on OA include the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the Bethesda Statement. Institutional and disciplinary repositories archive and provide access to scholarly works. Directories like the Directory of Open Access Journals and the Open Access Directory help locate OA content and information. Benefits of OA include wider dissemination of research and potential citation advantages, while challenges include issues around funding models and publisher resistance.
Global content summit: Overview, content partnering, richnessCyndy Parr
These are Cyndy Parr's presentations at the EOL Global Partner Summit, starting with an overview of the meeting, and including an overview of how we set up content partnerships, and how we calculate and use page richness scores.
FAIR data requires FAIR ontologies and standards. There has been an explosion in the number of ontologies but they are difficult to identify and manage due to a lack of consistent metadata. Existing ontology metadata practices were reviewed, finding that developers use various metadata vocabularies inconsistently and important ontology-specific metadata is underused. Ontology repositories help make ontologies more FAIR by providing interfaces for publishing, accessing, and reusing ontologies and their metadata. The presentation focuses on the NCBO BioPortal as an example ontology repository and how its technologies have been adopted by other repositories. Improving ontology metadata will help comprehension of the ontology landscape; a new AgroPortal metadata model was created to better describe ontologies and their
Europeana libraries a pan European aggregatorLIBER Europe
This document summarizes a presentation about Europeana Libraries, a project to build a pan-European digital library aggregator. The project will add over 5 million digital objects from 19 research and university libraries to Europeana. It aims to provide standardized metadata and an interface designed for researchers. A sustainable business model is needed as some institutions currently feed content through multiple aggregators. The presentation also discusses LIBER's role in advocating for European research libraries and its portfolio of EU projects.
= Finding a Good Ontology: The Open Ontology Repository Initiative =
Can you find a good ontology to use or extend for your application?
Building on previous registry and repository efforts, the Open Ontology Repository Initiative is a community effort developing open source software for finding, using, and maintaining open source and other ontologies.
The initial implementation of OOR is based on BioPortal (http://bioportal.bioontology.org), which is used to access and share ontologies that are actively used in biomedical communities and currently supports OWL, OBO, and Protege ontologies, LexGrid and RRF vocabularies, and ontology mapping. BioPortal has been developed by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology with support from the NIH Roadmap, but its infrastructure is domain-independent and being extended in various directions.
This presentation will include the following:
* A demonstration of the current public OOR instance
* OOR requirements and challenges
* On-going and planned development efforts (Common Logic support, federation, gatekeeping, provenance, governance, etc.)
* Details on how you can become involved
Resource and Metadata Management with a Linked Data perspectiveHannes Ebner
This document summarizes a presentation on resource and metadata management from a linked data perspective. It discusses projects like Organic.Edunet that deal with heterogeneous metadata from multiple standards and stakeholders. It also outlines the conceptual overview of the EntryStore system for managing linked data, including named graphs, REST API, ACLs, harvesting, querying, and SPARQL. Some lessons learned are around ontologies being difficult for annotators to grasp, the need for clear licensing of data versus metadata, and the complexity involved in practical implementation at large scale.
Beyond the Pay Wall!: Repositories as sources of supplyGaz Johnson
This presentation was aimed at those staff working in document supply and interlending who want to know more about the practical steps they can take to find free open access quality versions of works scattered in the repositories around the world.
This presentation was presented June 28th 2011 at the Interlend 2011 conference, Durham UK, for members of the Forum for Interlending.
This document provides an overview and instructions for conducting research and creating an annotated bibliography for an English writing seminar course. It discusses researching topics using library resources such as databases, books, and interlibrary loans. It explains how to construct an annotated bibliography and definition essay. Guidance is provided on evaluating information sources and managing references with bibliographic citation software.
Help your users to discover your content with OpenAthens and Link ResolversEduserv
Do your patrons search Google or PubMed and find they can’t access resources in the library collection? Frustrated that users don’t access resources from your library Intranet? Discover how to direct patrons to your subscribed material onsite and off-site using OpenAthens and link resolvers. See how easy it can be!
Watch the presentation here: http://youtu.be/_x3ziyB0l3o
Webinar presentation by Cyndy Parr and Erin Antognoli hosted by Hunger Solutions Institute (HSI) and Presidents United to Solve Hunger (PUSH) at Auburn University on April 25, 2019.
The Ag Data Commons is a platform for aggregating, cataloging, and sharing agricultural data. It harvests metadata from various federal and university repositories to make data more discoverable without duplication of submission efforts. Currently it catalogs open datasets and links them to related literature. In the future, it aims to harvest more funding information and methodological details to better link datasets to associated research articles and grants. The goal is to organize agricultural data according to shared standards to make it fully machine-readable and reusable to support further research and decision-making.
Biodiversity informatics and the agricultural data landscapeCyndy Parr
Introductory talk of a symposium on Agrobiodiversity informatics at the 2016 annual meeting of the Biodiversity Information Standards. Begins with an overview of the symposium and its speakers, and then launches into my talk.
Public access to research results at USDACyndy Parr
An update on public access activities at the National Agricultural Library and next steps, presented 11 January 2017 at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) meeting in Bethesda, Maryland.
Ag Data Commons: Agricultural research metadata and dataCyndy Parr
The document proposes the Ag Data Commons as a solution to address challenges with agricultural research data by creating a central repository to host metadata and data according to federal directives for public access. It outlines the goals of the Ag Data Commons to support public access mandates through a sustainable platform for hosting and sharing agricultural research data and metadata in both human and machine-readable formats. The document also provides details on the workflow for submitting and publishing data on the Ag Data Commons to ensure standardized metadata and compliance with best practices.
Preparing for data-intensive science across domains.Cyndy Parr
Presented at American Institute for Biological Sciences council meeting 8 December 2015. I focus on anecdotes from multiple domains on the kinds of skills and trajectories that empower scientists at multiple levels to become engaged in data-intensive science as data wranglers or tool-builders. Even if they don't have lots of funding from NSF or NIH.
This document discusses the Ag Data Commons, a proposed solution for aggregating and providing access to open agricultural research data. It would support public access mandates by hosting USDA and other agricultural data. The Ag Data Commons would provide both human and machine access to metadata and data. It would integrate existing databases and repositories and add value by standardizing metadata, assigning DOIs, and linking to related data and literature. The document considers options for the technical platform, focusing on standards for metadata, controlled vocabularies, and trusted data repository requirements.
Ag Data Commons: Adding Value to open agricultural research dataCyndy Parr
A talk presented on 30 September 2013 at the Biodiversity Information Standards (Taxonomic Databases Working Group TDWG) annual meeting in Nairobi, Kenya
This document provides an overview of the TDWG annual meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. It lists the meeting themes, registration details, membership numbers, executive committee members, and highlights of the program which includes symposia, talks, posters, workshops and interest groups. A history of past meeting locations is also included.
iEvoBio Keynote: Frontiers of discovery with Encyclopedia of Life -- TRAITBANK Cyndy Parr
Talk presented at iEvoBio 2014 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Though there's a similar title and overlap with the talk I posted last week, there is new material here especially geared towards an informatics crowd savvy in the tools and technology.
Frontiers of discovery with Encyclopedia of LifeCyndy Parr
Presented at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 18 June 2014
Describes, among other things, development of the TraitBank repository of species attributes, and the use of EOL and TraitBank in scientific research.
Practical interoperability across semantic stores of data for ecological, tax...Cyndy Parr
Presented at the Biodiversity Information Standards (Taxonomic Databases Working Group) 2013 meeting in Florence, Italy on 31 October 2013. Essentially, an introduction to aspects of the back end of the new trait repository of Encyclopedia of Life.
Using and extending Darwin Core for structured attribute dataCyndy Parr
Presented at the Biodiversity Information Standards (Taxonomic Databases Working Group) 2013 meeting in Florence, Italy on 29 October 2013. Essentially, an introduction to the new trait repository of Encyclopedia of Life.
How the Encyclopedia of Life is wrangling organismal attribute dataCyndy Parr
The document discusses the Encyclopedia of Life's (EOL) efforts to aggregate and standardize organism attribute data from various sources. Some key points:
- EOL harvests data from over 240 content providers and hosts over 1.1 million species pages. It receives over 3.3 million annual visitors from 235 countries.
- EOL is developing a TraitBank to aggregate trait data from various datasets, totaling over 128,000 data points for over 20,000 taxa so far. It aims to make this data easily accessible and analyzable.
- Challenges include standardizing data from different sources and filling gaps, but aggregated trait data could help answer questions about topics like species interactions, tissue
The Road to TraitBank: What's Next for the Encyclopedia of LifeCyndy Parr
The document discusses plans to expand the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) database to include a new "TraitBank" that will store trait data for millions of species. Currently, EOL contains basic information pages for over 1 million species but lacks details on species traits. The first step is adding limited trait data to EOL pages through a new funding initiative focused on marine species. The long term goal is to create a larger TraitBank database that can handle vast amounts of trait data, promote best practices, and enable crowd-sourcing contributions to facilitate research. By linking trait information to species on EOL, it will become a more powerful open resource for studying biodiversity.
Encyclopedia of Life: Applying Concepts from Amazon and LEGO to Biodiversity ...Cyndy Parr
The document summarizes the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project, which aims to create a webpage for every known species. It discusses how EOL works by crowdsourcing content from over 240 providers and harvesting data from third party applications. EOL currently has pages for over 1.1 million species and sees 3 million unique visitors annually. The document outlines ongoing efforts to make EOL's large volume of species data more computable through linking data to external ontologies, promoting text mining and crowdsourcing of data, and developing infrastructure for standardized access and analysis of species interaction networks and trait information.
Encyclopedia of Life: Use cases for phenotypesCyndy Parr
EOL aggregates and curates scientific data from multiple sources to provide comprehensive summaries of taxa. It has grown from 2.8 million pages and 2 million data objects two years ago to 3.3 million pages and over 5 million data objects today. EOL is working to improve semantic search, link data to external resources, promote text mining and crowdsourcing, and provide analyzable data summaries to enable new types of research across the tree of life.
A talk presented January 19, 2013 in the Indo-US Joint Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment in Bangalore, India.
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Covey says most people look for quick fixes. They see a big success and want to know how he did it, believing (and hoping) they can do the same following a quick bullet list.
But real change, the author says, comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out. And the most fundamental way of changing yourself is through a paradigm shift.
That paradigm shift is a new way of looking at the world. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People presents an approach to effectiveness based on character and principles.
The first three habits indeed deal with yourself because it all starts with you. The first three habits move you from dependence from the world to the independence of making your own world.
Habits 4, 5 and 6 are about people and relationships. The will move you from independence to interdependence. Such, cooperating to achieve more than you could have by yourself.
The last habit, habit number 7, focuses on continuous growth and improvement.
1. Building and aggregating species pages
Cynthia Parr, PhD @cydparr
Species Pages Group @eol
Chief Scientist
2. Goals
1. To provide some practical information about
tools for capturing and sharing species
information
2. To get feedback on EOL tools and processes
for future improvement
3. To discuss good ideas that can inspire each
other as we work both together and
separately
3. Show of hands
• Do you contribute to a website(s) already?
• Do you run your own website?
• Would you rather just publish scientific
papers?
4. Outline
• EOL is part of a sharing network
• Standards for sharing species descriptions
• Tools for capturing content
– Direct on EOL
– Multimedia repositories
– Wikis
– Literature
– Specialist web sites
• Sharing content with EOL
• Curating EOL content
• Using content from EOL
5. EOL is part of a rich data sharing ecosystem about
living organisms
From Parr et al. 2012. Evolutionary informatics: unifying knowledge about the diversity of life.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 26: 94-103.
10. Use your own classification standard
You do NOT have to follow a designated classification
Share your taxonomic hierarchy with your EOL content
EOL does its best to match the content with pages we
already have
Contribute to COL and ITIS (and their partners)
Then all projects will have access
11. Outline
• EOL is part of a sharing network
• Standards for sharing species descriptions
• Tools for capturing content
– Direct on EOL
– Multimedia repositories
– Wikis
– Literature
– Specialist web sites
• Sharing content with EOL
• Curating EOL content
• Using content from EOL
15. Choosing a subject determines where
on the EOL page the information is
displayed
Also important for other applications
that want to use the content
17. If you have a lot of content
• Work with a hub like India Biodiversity Portal
• Spreadsheet upload to EOL
• Find a specialist website that is already a
partner with EOL
26. Wikipedia/Wikimedia
BUT
Only the English version, starts unreviewed
Highly formatted, not always consistent
Not always easy to review
About 150K taxa, 122K images
Easy to add new taxa
28. Pensoft.net
• Pensoft has a process to
generate EOL-compliant
XML for new species
• Also sends images to
Morphbank, specimens
to GBIF
• They registered the URL
at EOL
• Our script checks for
changes once a day
• EOL Open Access Fund
33. Outline
• EOL is part of a sharing network
• Standards for sharing species descriptions
• Tools for capturing content
– Direct on EOL
– Multimedia repositories
– Wikis
– Literature
– Specialist web sites
• Sharing content with EOL
• Curating EOL content
• Using content from EOL
34. Working with existing EOL partner?
• Using their tools
Add content
Follow • May need to add special tags
• May need to change licenses
instructions • May need to add to an EOL group
• Your content will be updated
That’s all! automatically whenever we harvest
from that partner
35. If you already have your own website
(or spreadsheet)
• Create EOL member account
Register on EOL • Add content partner with contact info
Prepare resource • Spreadsheet OR Darwin Core Archive
• EOL will work with you
file
• Provide file for one time upload
Add resource file • Or provide URL and set harvest frequency
• Notifications of traffic statistics
Receive feedback • Curation actions
• Comments (Please respond!)
44. Outline
• EOL is part of a sharing network for species
• Standards for sharing species descriptions
• Tools for capturing content
– Direct on EOL
– Multimedia repositories
– Wikis
– Literature
– Specialist web sites
• Sharing content with EOL
• Curating EOL content
• Using content from EOL
45. EOL curation http://eol.org/info/curators
• Trust, untrust, hide taxon associations
• Add new taxon association
• Leave a comment
• Add a rating
46. • Set preferred classifications
• Add and set preferred
common names
More info at:
http://eol.org/info/curators
47. http://eol.org/info/curators
• Register as a member at eol.org
• Edit your profile and provide your credentials
– For assistant curator, just your real name
– For full curator need academic affiliation OR
publication reference OR referral from another full
curator
• Curate only as much as you are able
48. Outline
• EOL is part of a sharing network
• Standards for sharing species descriptions
• Tools for capturing content
– Direct on EOL
– Multimedia repositories
– Wikis
– Literature
– Specialist web sites
• Sharing content with EOL
• Curating EOL content
• Using content from EOL
49. Using content from EOL
Manually API
No need to ask
Docs at http://eol.org/api
permission
Follow license
conditions Register for an API key
Provide attribution Follow terms of use
Set up either a dynamic
query or refresh a cache of
results
50. Questions?
• Contact our partners at the India Biodiversity Portal
• Contact me at parrc@si.edu
• Use the contact us form on EOL
flickr.com/groups/encyclopediaoflife
inaturalist.org, morphbank.org
biodiversitylibrary.org
pensoft.net, plazi.org
scratchpads.eu
eol.org/info/cp_getting_started
eol.org/info/curators
eol.org/api
Editor's Notes
Includes genetic information, geospatial information, descriptive information, evolutionary information, and published literature.Some of these are using ontologies and we are integrating with them in interesting ways.Box 3. Linking and sharing biodiversity dataA vast ecosystem of projects is already managing and, to somedegree, sharing information about living organisms. Figure Ishows an incompletely known network of biodiversity-relateddatabases. Two kinds of hub are apparent: hubs connectingdifferent kinds of data (e.g. EOL) and hubs that connect manypartners and subnetworks sharing the same kind of data (e.g. GBIF,BHL and Catalogue of Life). Most hubs have received majorfunding from research and charitable foundations and activelyfacilitate use of data-sharing standards, such as Darwin Core.Some non-hub projects have been leaders in connecting to manyhubs; these projects enjoy effective individual and/or institutionalsupport for data sharing. Such an analysis provides: (i) a baselineunderstanding of redundancy and resiliency for long-term dataaccess; (ii) characterization of the environment for distributedannotation and quality control; and (iii) identification of isolatedprojects and appropriate mechanisms for connecting them to thenetwork. A more complete analysis, including the volume of dataflow, could enable real-time assessment of network health. Theinformatics community assumes that this ‘eBiosphere’ [75] haspositive impacts on progress in evolutionary and biodiversityscience as well as societal challenges, but demonstrating theseimpacts remains a challenge.Figure I. An incompletely known network of biodiversity-related databases. Dots represent 1631 projects, clustered and color-coded by the Clauset-Newman-Moore algorithm[76] using NodeXL [77], with 1704 instances of data sharing (re-use of the same data), deep hyperlinking (e.g. a page for a taxon in one online database links to appropriateresources in another online database), or indexing. The size of dot reflects the degree (i.e. number of links); links between hubs (degree >15) are enlarged for emphasis.OBIS = Ocean Biogeographic Information System, WoRMS = World Register of Marine Species, AKN = Avian Knowledge Network. See main text and Box 1 for otheracronyms. Projects included Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a leading online aggregator of descriptive information about all organisms, its partners and their partners, and 588projects registered in the Taxonomic Databases Working Group database. The cluster of unconnected dots indicates that no linkages are known among hundreds of projects.