Cynthia Parr Species Pages Group GBIF Briefing 11 Aug 2010.

Cynthia ParrSpecies Pages Group

GBIF Briefing11 Aug 2010

Catalogue of Life

IUCN

GBIF

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Content providersDatabasesLifeDesksPublic contribution

CURATORS

COMMENTERSTAGGERS

Statistics

• 2.4 million pages

• ~80 content partners

• 1.7 million data objects

• 400,000 taxon pages

• 330,000 pages with vetted objects

• 430 curators/1000s contributors/~43,000 members

Pages with a vetted object

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 200

100000

200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

New features & projects

API – see http://www.eol.org/api

Content summaries

Global partners

EOL Global Partners

China

Australia

Dutch

South Africa

Central America

US Federal Pan-Arab

Norway

Integrated US federal biodiversity system

• 250,000 occurrence points via GBIF

• >100 data layers from EPA, NASA, USGSe.g. land use, soil type,

climate, nutrient deposition, air quality, water quality

Pending: Species ranges from USFWS and USGS

Integrated Earth

Species mashups• ITIS names hierarchy

• EOL images & descriptions

• NatureServ descriptions

Pending: Links to collections data, other image sources

8/10/10

Integrated US federal biodiversity system

Future plans

Content plan/Mini-grants

Exploring relationship with IPT

Launch v2 in June 2011e.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