Classifications in EOL
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The document outlines challenges in taxonomy, including issues with species naming, the need for a consensus on classifications, and the complexity of managing numerous content objects. It discusses future directions, such as incorporating lifedesk hierarchies and creating a taxonomy editing interface to improve the classification system. The document also highlights collaborations and tools aimed at enhancing taxonomy management and data usability.
Classifications in EOL
- 1. Our challenges1.9 million species ≠ 1.9 million names
- 2. Millions of content objects, some with invalid names
- 6. Need a consensus browsing hierarchy
- 7. Need quality
- 8. Need scalability – we have ONE taxonomist on staff1.3 million pages
- 9. What if we get content that is not in Catalogue of Life?575,000!
- 14. Updating EOLCan add and set preferred vernacular names
- 15. Find source of problems (e.g. Flickr), urge them to fix
- 16. Report to COLP and ITIS
- 17. Add comments on offending object, or explanatory text object on EOL page
- 18. LifeDesks – export classification and offer to COLFuture directionsImport LifeDesk hierarchies into EOL
- 19. Make non-COL names easier to navigate to while browsing
- 20. Hope that COL gets more dynamic, and
- 21. GNA/GNITE
- 22. Other ideas . . .Global Names – Interface for Taxonomic Editing
- 23. External sourcesUser registryGNA - CLRRepository mirrorIPTPOSTBOXAnnotationNames / relationshipsLocal classificationsHierarchymergeNames managementGNIRGsRepositoryGNUBRG managementNomenclatural(& taxonomic) needsAll namesParsingAll usagesCheckListBankvernaculars managementLexicalSurrogatesHomotypicreconciliationHomonyms / ChresonymsHeterotypicreconciliationreference managementINTERFACEOverall flow – from an external source, converted to DWCA and dropped into the classification repository, from which information is drawn into an instantiation of GFNIRE and worked on
- 24. Result returned to CLR, available to EOL or 3rd parties for re-use Web and stand-alone
- 25. The toolkit will extend LifeDesks / ScratchPads taxonomic editor
- 26. ScheduleGNITE v 1 expected July, but seeking beta testersWe will create a composite classification from parts we have assembled in GNA CLR, and this will provide raw materials for others to work with