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http://www.flickr.com/groups/encyclopedia_of_life/pool/map?mode=group
Using Drupal Taxonomy
to Catalog
all Organisms on Earth
Encyclopedia Of Life
Distribution Profiles
Taxonomy Enhancements
Taxonomy Servers
Drupal in Research
I'm Dan ([email protected])
Biosecurity.govt.nz
Sorted.org.nz
The Vintage Aviator
import_html
Relationship (RDF)
imagecache_actions
taxonomy_xml
EOL Taxonomy Code Sprint
Chicago, Sept 08
Field Museum of Natural History
Invited Drupal Coders
UK, Ireland, US, Canada
Taxonomists, Biologists
http://sprint.eol.org/
Simon Rycroft, Nathaniel Catchpole, Anthony Goddard, Lisa
Walley, Roger Espinosa, Matthias Hutterer, Cyndy Parr, Dan
Morrison, Chacha Sikes, David Shorthouse, Benjamin Doherty, Vitthal
Kudal, Alexey Shipunov, Ben Melancon (missing: Vince Smith)
Encyclopedia of Life - EOL
All Life on Earth
1.8-7? Million Taxons
Partners:
MacArthur Foundation
Harvard
Smithsonion
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Catalog of Life
E. O. Wilson TED Prize 2007
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/e_o_wilson_on_saving_life_on_earth.html
Video 3 minutes
Drupal - LifeDesks
Distributed personal Drupal sites
Each Researcher has their own shard
Drupal to share taxonomy, then annotate resources.
Drupal because...
Drupal does taxonomy
But not like this!
Drupal does everything else
No distribution / licensing problems
Hosted (initially)
Personal copies (possible)
Used it before
Drupal Didn't...
Allow annotated Taxonomy terms
Citations, GUIDs, extra (Rank)
Scale!
Import/Export/Share
Manage large trees
Drupal Can...
Allow annotated Taxonomy terms
Citations, GUIDs, extra (Rank)
taxonomy enhancer, node auto term (+)
Scale!
Actualized Paths + core improvements
Import/Export/Share
Taxonomy XML (+CSV, RDF)
Manage large trees
Taxonomy Manager + core UI
- DEMO -
Install profile bootstrapping content types
Batch Process Form API/ Batch API
NAT Terms as nodes and nodes as terms
CCK fields for terms!
Each Drupal site can also be a taxonomy server
Web services as taxonomy sources
taxonomy_xml on d.o. CVS
NZGLS Thesauri, Dewey Decimal, International Press Metadata
Vocabulary
