EOL China Center status

Data Flow and Contents in EOL China Center

EOL China Regional CenterBiodiversity Committee, CAS

March 9, 2012

Implementation of EOL China data system

EOL-China Portal

EOL-China Plant

Web serviceEOL-China MicrobialEOL-China Animal

Web service Web service

Structure of management and service in EOL China

EOL-China Portal

Disciplinary Databases and websites

Species databases of taxa

System manager

Curator, Data manager

taxonomists（ data provider）

Public

PublicData import in xml files in Bisby Core format

Web service

EOL China service system

Data flow of Animal Database

Animal database

Chinese bird database

harvestingChinese spider databaseChinese Mammal database

harvesting harvesting

Import in xml

CoL China

Data flow of Plant Database

Plant database

Chinese Nature Museum

harvesting

Plant photo databaseChinese Virtual Herbarium

harvesting harvesting

Import in xml

CoL China

Chinese high plant database

harvesting

EOL China

database

CoL China databas

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Xml files（ Bisby Core ）

Bird databas

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Mammal databas

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Spider databas

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Species data

management system

Procedure of data collection for EOL China databases

Components of Bisby Core There are 5 components in a Bisby Core

standard document: The taxonomic tree component: describe the

information of a taxonomic tree, such as the name of the tree, the author of tree, etc.

The taxon information component: describe the taxonomic relevant data of taxon;

The data object component: describes attributes of taxon in text and/or multimedia format;

The reference component: describe information about references;

The people component: describe information of expert who make scrutiny.

Data Source of EOL China All species data in EOL China are from

species databases of animal, plant and microbial building up by Institute of Zoology, Institute of Botany and Institute of Microbiology, CAS, which collect data from monographs, scientific papers, website and reviewed by taxonomists. The names of taxonomists are listed in the species pages as an object of the species.

The copyright information are attached with the object data as in EOL website.

Portal of EOL China

Animal website of EOL China

Plant website of EOL China

Microbial website of EOL China

Statistics for contents in EOL-China

　 Total pages

Rich pages

Text pages

Only images

Only names

Animal(Mammalia,

Aves , Arachnida)

9909 2237 1722 52 5898

Plant(Gymnosperm

ae, Orchidaceae)

10003 2891 0 4505 2607

Microbial

(Ganodermataceae,

Tremellales, Polyporaceae)

2259 1873 386 0 0

total 22171 7001 2108 4557 8505

Example of rich pages http://animal.eolchina.org/pages/105

81 http://

animal.eolchina.org/pages/10406 http://

animal.eolchina.org/pages/10435 http://

animal.eolchina.org/pages/7060

Content development Building up new species data in Chinese by taxonomists Next year

Animal: fish, butterfly – 600 species Plant: Gymnospermae, Orchidaceae – 2000 species Microbial: Boletaceae, Laboulbeniales, Geastraceae,

Nidulariales, Cyanophyta, Meliolales, Uredinales, Aspergillus – 1000 species

Next 2 years Animal: amphibian, butterfly – 800 species Plant: important plant – 3000 species Microbial: Boletaceae, Laboulbeniales, Geastraceae,

Nidulariales, Cyanophyta – 1000 species High rank taxa data, genus, family, order, ……