Tdikow Diptera Eol Talk
Transcript of Tdikow Diptera Eol Talk
EOL species pages:from 42 pages to 156,000 species pages
Torsten Dikow
Biodiversity Synthesis CenterField Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA
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/
Share photos with EOL through flickr grouphttp://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=”
First 42 pages – 1st Tier AToL
» Use EDIT Scratchpads for now
» Very limited information available at this time
» Need help from experts
» Literature
Additional 300 species pages
» Which species should we present?
» Every family with at least one species
» Your initiative is needed?
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