Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) http://www.eol.org CEPHALOPODA A proposal to cephalopod workers (September 2009) ROGER HANLON Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA HASSAN MOUSTAFID NOAA, Silver Spring, MD ALEXANDRA FRIES Duke University, NC The reason for this presentation • Cephbase has been a wonderful tool, yet it was costly and has been inoperable for the past 3 years • The cephalopod community needs an international forum that takes advantage of the World Wide Web • An active, user-based web system - with acknowledgement to ALL participants - would be useful to cephalopod workers, other scientists, the public and the media • Thanks to many others: Ron O’Dor, Mike Vecchione, James Wood, David Patterson (EOL), David Shorthouse (EOL), Lisa Walley (EOL), Vince Smith (UK), David Remsen (Copenhagen), et al. • Based on 3 years of discussions (legal and scientific) 2 2003: the IDEA is formed Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth, available everywhere by single access on command. The page contains the scientific name of the species, a pictorial or genomic presentation of the primary type specimen on which its name is based, and a summary of its diagnostic traits. The page opens out directly or by linkage with other databases such as ARKive, Ecoport, and GenBank. It comprises a summary of everything known about the species’ genome, proteome, geographic distribution, phylogenetic position, habitat, ecological relationships, and, not least, its perceived practical importance for humanity. A simplistic explanation of EOL: Wikipedia with quality control of scientific content Google Biology with curation OVERALL CONCEPT EOL is a “bottom - up” approach, not a “top - down” approach That is, the user community volunteers to organize, upload & verify scientific content This is very different from Cephbase 5 Steering Committee Executive Sloan MacArthur MV Smithsonian Foundation Foundation Biodiversity Heritage Library Woods Hole JV Field Museum Research Community Harvard University Education and outreach Missouri Botanical Garden Plants Atlas of Living Australia ? Australiana Marine Biological RH Laboratory Biodiversity Informatics Not the first time … Tree of Life Catalog of Life SpeciesBase DiscoverLife What makes EOL distinct …. The grandeur of the vision A taxonomically intelligent names-based cyberinfrastructure The inclusion of content already available at other sites - aggregation Flexibility for multiple audiences Participatory Open source content and software (Drupal) 4 The Vision Exemplar Pages (February 2008- 1.1 million hits on Day 1) Rick Wilkerson Jonathan Losos • David Langor • David Shorthouse • Mary Hennen • Judy Stoffer • George Yatskievych • Kendra Buresch Anne Pringle • Brian Farrell • Alta Buden • Margaret Thayer • Michael Ashburner • Christy Geraci • Lilibeth Miranda • Senjie Lin Tonia Hsieh • David Patterson • Christian Thompson • Rod Eastwood • Jerry Louton • Seth Bordenstein Rich Pyle • Roger Hanlon • Tamara ClARKMWendy Applequist • Grace Servat • Bob Magill • Sandy Knapp • Vicki Funk Does EOL own data? No They index information They may keep a copy They identify the author and the copyright holder 7 Licensing Policy for Content Partners To the greatest extent possible, the Encyclopedia of Life promotes an open-source, open-access approach. All information Content providers Content providers The EOL will currently in the are required to who request some provide attribution public domain adopt a Creative restrictions on re- information for all will remain in the Commons license use of their content that it public domain. for the information information may serves. EOL will that they serve select: also indicate the through the EOL. CC-BY-SA Creative Commons Except for public- CC-BY-NC license attached to domain content, the CC-BY-NC-SA each object default and (text, structured preferred license is data, graphics, CC-BY multimedia, etc.). 8 V5.0 5 April 2008 You aren't signed in Sign In Help 1 Home 2 The Tour 3 Sign Up 4 Explore Search EOL Collaborative Photo Sharing site Photos Groups People Descriptions | Discussions Sort:RelevantActivitySizeAge Encyclopedia of Life Images 1,405 members | 99 discussions | 33,893 items | Created 13 months ago | Join? This group was started to allow anyone to provide images for the Encyclopedia of Life web site. Images and scientific illustrations of organisms or their signs (tracks, nests,... ( more ) Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand 212 members | 17 discussions | 1,885 items | Created 22 months ago | Join? Post your favourite photos of New Zealand places and life in New Zealand to the Te Ara Flickr pool. 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However, video requires careful interpretation in the context of science TAXON PAGES IN EOL VISIT THIS PAGE at: http://www.eol.org/taxa/16486539 go live on internet to see video/images etc Notice the subjects chosen to describe this species HOW IS A PAGE ON EOL CREATED? “LifeDesk” is the software program chosen by EOL to assemble pages for uploading to EOL The basic idea: LifeDesk is a platform for adding and organizing each species page The ceph community “owns” the content in their LifeDesk environment What does a LifeDesk look like? 18 How can content be added/ transferred and organized? It is up to the biological community Content is not restricted Can be tailored to needs/desires of the cephalopod community Can we transfer info from Cephbase? (this is being investigated in 2009) 19 How is a species page made in LifeDesk for future uploading to EOL? June to August 2009 LifeDesk opened to the scientific community Initial attempts to use LifeDesk for Loligo pealeii and Octopus vulgaris Alexandra Fries Hassan Moustafid Roger Hanlon 20 FRONTPAGE go “live” on internet TAXON PAGES BIBLIOGRAPHY IMAGE GALLERY PRESENT “MEMBERS” with editorial “Expert Curator” privileges on 2 species FLOW of INFORMATION (draft) • Individual scientists (you) send information to the Administrator of a species LifeDesk via email • Expert Curators are determined by Ceph Community and a list of them is published • Expert Curators receive info and apply Quality Control criteria (cf., they may solicit review by other experts) • Administrator adds info to LifeDesk and submits this to EOL Expert Curator for web presentation • Contributor names are always acknowledged - as well as links to other websites 29 Challenges to address and decide upon • Is there majority consensus for EOL as the primary internet source for ceph data? • What is the first priority asset we can provide on EOL site that will be useful to you (e.g. active set of references, other ideas encouraged) • How to organize “Expert Curators” for quality control of content • What are the quality control criteria? Peer review journal papers should be top priority; gray literature is a problem. • Duty of Expert Curator: reject incorrect, misleading, or other low- quality information • CURATORIAL NETWORK PLAN curatorPlan (see EOL web page) What do you get by contributing to EOL/ceph pages? • reference database (Endnote and other software programs) • pdf reprints? (constrained by publishers) • your own research publications can be uploaded for www viewing in real time • you can direct the media (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, NSF) to your work and that of others for easy access and distribution to the public • content to base courses on cephalopods • ? credit from your university/organization? Organize Expert Curators by: • 1. TAXONOMY? • Species level (pros/cons) e.g. good for a few special, well known and studied species such as Octopus vulgaris • Genus level (pros / cons) e.g. Loligo • Family level (pros / cons) e.g. Enoploteuthidae • Ordinal level; e.g. Nautiloidea 32 Organize Expert Curators by: • 2. REGION? (pros/cons). For example: the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Falkland Isl. etc. • 3. BIOLOGICAL SUBJECT? (pros/cons) For example: physiology, behavior, fisheries, systematics, population dynamics, etc. • 4. OTHER ways to organize? 33 Volunteers • EOL or any other web presence for cephalopods is unlikely to work unless we all share the responsibility to upload information to the web site in a timely fashion. • Expert Curators require some experience in the discipline (Master Curator status) • Newcomers to cephalopod biology are strongly encouraged to participate 34 Study nature, not books L. Agassiz ca. 1890 Thank you.