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Content Partners and Data Transfer. Patrick Leary. Current EOL Content. Sources of content Content Partners User Contributions ( LifeDesks , User-submitted text ) Public content stores ( Flickr , Wikimedia) Data objects Descriptions Multimedia BHL species references Occurrence data
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Content Partners and Data Transfer Patrick Leary
Current EOL Content • Sources of content • Content Partners • User Contributions (LifeDesks, User-submitted text) • Public content stores (Flickr, Wikimedia) • Data objects • Descriptions • Multimedia • BHL species references • Occurrence data • Classifications • Barcodes • Outlinks
Referred to EOL Species Pages Group Adopt Appropriate Licensing NO EOL Identifies Data Partner NO Review IPR Policy All Content Under Acceptable License? Review On-line Requirements Agree with EOL Requirements? Accept EOL IPR Policy on-line (one-click button) Self-Registration YES Data Partner Approaches EOL YES Identification & Registration Review Documentation Attribution, Roles, Transfer Schema BIG SPG Content Partner Pipeline Creating a Resource Data Objects in Appropriate Format? Agreements & Documentation YES NO Self-register Create a Connector Prepare Content & Harvest NO Review Aggregation Satisfactory? Modifications Modifications YES Content Partner Published API’s & Additional Applications Content Appears on Species Pages
Licensing Policy for Content Partners To the greatest extent possible, the Encyclopedia of Life promotes an open-source, open-access approach. Content providers are required to adopt a Creative Commons license for the information that they serve through the EOL. Except for public-domain content, the default and preferred license is CC-BY All information currently in the public domain will remain in the public domain. Content providers who request some restrictions on re-use of their information may select: CC-BY-SA CC-BY-NC CC-BY-NC-SA The EOL will provide attribution information for all content that it serves. EOL will also indicate the Creative Commons license attached to each object (text, structured data, graphics, multimedia, etc.). V5.0 5 April 2008
EOL Content Schema • Taxon • Darwin Core for taxonomy • Common names • Data Object • License • Limited to Creative Commons or Public Domain • Species Profile Model text subjects • Attribution • Author, photographer, editor… • Bibliographic citation • Location or latitude/longitude • Wildcards for flexibility and expansion
Content Partners (e.g. FishBase, Tree of Life, LifeDesks, …) APIs, Excel, Export XML Schema Processing EOL Databases Content Cache Rails Models and Controllers APIs