1. Introducing Encyclopedia of Life version 2 International, Personal, Re-usable data Cynthia Parr National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution @cydparr @eol

2. EOLv2 eol.org

3. Why?

4. Mora et al. 2011. PLoS ONE.

6. Photo: Cornell Univ. Photo: Mary Keim NA Butterfly Association Fourth of July Count Audubon Christmas Bird Count Crowd-sourcing

7. Aggregation Assemble Curate Engagement Internationalize Personalize Contextualize Computation Semantics Mining EOL v1 EOL v2 eol.org

8. Scientific Databases Scientific Journals Curate Comment Rate Comment Rate eol.org EOL aggregates and curates: a content curation community Aggregate

9. Scope All species Global Many audiences – enthusiasts – learners – citizen scientists – scientists

10. Community challenges Mostly in English So much content, hard to make sense of it Need incentives to come back Need to empower everyone

12. Internationalizing

14. Personalizing

15. Collections can be practical

16. A collection of collections: Species in different areas of the National Zoo http://www.eol.org/collections/64

17. Fascinating textures: a scavenger hunt http://www.eol.org/collections/740

19. Communities to share interests … or to share work

20. http://xkcd.com/386/ Why Curate?

21. Institutional obligations Citable online work Accurate info on internet Advertise my expertise Highlight my research Meet needs of my project Supervising someone else n=161 Most importantLeast important Why scientists want to curate EOL

22. Empowering curation

23. Incentives for improvement Image credit: Peter Förster

24. What next?

25. … but can’t yet be sure EOL knows the answer Photo credit: Breda Zimkus

26. Aggregation Assemble Curate Engagement Internationalize Personalize Contextualize Computation Semantics Mining EOL v1 EOL v2 eol.org EOL v3?

27. http://eol.org/pages/598484/details Supplier: Ocean Biogeographic Information System

28. Acknowledgements Funding from: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Alfred P. Sloane Foundation Smithsonian Institution Marine Biological Laboratory and other funders and donors All our content partners and global partners, especially: INBio -- Costa Rica Biblioteca Alexandrina -- Egypt CONABIO – Mexico OBIS – Ocean Biogeographic Information System Volunteer curators and individual contributors via Flickr, Wikimedia, and members of EOL