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GBIF Briefing 11 Aug 2010. Cynthia Parr Species Pages Group . Catalogue of Life. IUCN. Content providers Databases LifeDesks Public contribution. CURATORS. COMMENTERS TAGGERS. GBIF. Biodiversity Heritage Library. Statistics. P ages with a vetted object. 2.4 million pages
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GBIFBriefing 11 Aug2010 Cynthia Parr Species Pages Group
Catalogue of Life IUCN Content providers Databases LifeDesks Public contribution CURATORS COMMENTERS TAGGERS GBIF Biodiversity Heritage Library
Statistics Pages with a vetted object • 2.4 million pages • ~80content partners • 1.7 million data objects • 400,000 taxon pages • 330,000 pages with vetted objects • 430 curators/1000s contributors/~43,000 members
New features & projects • API – see http://www.eol.org/api • Content summaries • Global partners
EOL Global Partners Norway Dutch US Federal Pan-Arab China Central America Australia South Africa
Integrated US federal biodiversity system Integrated Earth • 250,000 occurrence points via GBIF • >100 data layers from EPA, NASA, USGS • e.g. land use, soil type, climate, nutrient deposition, air quality, water quality • Pending: Species ranges from USFWS and USGS
Integrated US federal biodiversity system Species mashups • ITIS names hierarchy • EOL images & descriptions • NatureServ descriptions • Pending: Links to collections data, other image sources
Future plans • Content plan/Mini-grants • Exploring relationship with IPT • Launch v2 in June 2011 • e.g. maps tab,Lists/Missions • towards NA EOL
Themes, e.g. Marine • 90% of 230,000 marine species by 2013 • 78,000 pages with content so far, about 1/3
BHL status • 43,047 titles, 31,243,922 pages • 890,000 EOL pages with links to BHL literature (of which 670K have no other text) • User survey with BHL Europe • – 1000 respondents • – New features • Signed: BHL Australia and BHL China