Kicking off a new NSF-supported project at University of Maryland called Biotracker. This show introduces Encyclopedia of Life to the students who will be creating games, a community, and computer vision tools for mobile phone-based identification of species.

1. BiotrackerBriefing 24 Aug 2010 Cynthia Parr Species Pages Group

2. Aims today EOL background How EOL works Status Themes and Regional EOLs Fellows Working with EOL

3. Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on Earth. -Edward O. Wilson

5. Freely accessible: open access, open source

6. Available from a single portal in a common format

7. Quality

8. Constantly growing

10. Typical species page

11. Objects can come from many partners Objects are sorted by topic Each partner gets credit

12. Maps from global museum and observation data

13. Links to digital literature

14. Curation, Comments, Tags

15. Not Not

16. Not Wikipedia

18. Over 45 content partners providing 1.7 million data objects on 400,000 taxon pages

19. 330,000 pages with vetted objects

21. Themes, e.g. Marine 90% of 230,000 marine species by 2013 78,000 pages with content so far, about 1/3 Upcoming themes: Invasives? Beetles? Plants?

22. Regional EOLs Norway Dutch North America China Pan-Arab Central America Australia South Africa

24. Share content related to their research

25. Engage other scientists, help us do a better job

26. 35% of current fellows and 53% of mentors are affiliated with the Smithsonian

28. Working with EOL:Roadmap discussion Launch v.2 in June or July of next year Revamped interface Improved interaction Personas Improved APIs (see http://www.eol.org/api)

30. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

31. Cornerstone Institutions

32. Grants

33. Private Donors

34. The Biodiversity Heritage Library

35. The Field Museum of Natural History

36. The Missouri Botanical Garden

37. The Marine Biological Laboratory

38. Harvard University

39. The Smithsonian Institution