Knowledge extraction and semantic annotation of text from the encyclopedia of life. by Anne E Thessen, Cynthia Sims Parr

“…In this paper, we describe two workflows for knowledge extraction and semantic annotation of text data objects featured in an online biodiversity aggregator, the Encyclopedia of Life. One workflow tags text with DBpedia URIs based on keywords. …”
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Usage patterns of blue flower color representation by Encyclopedia of Life content providers by Chantal-Marie Wright, Katja Seltmann

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The Encyclopedia of Life v2: Providing Global Access to Knowledge About Life on Earth by Cynthia S. Parr, Nathan Wilson, Patrick Leary, Katja Schulz, Kristen Lans, Lisa Walley, Jennifer Hammock, Anthony Goddard, Jeremy Rice, Marie Studer, Jeffrey Holmes, Robert Corrigan, Jr.

“…The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, http://eol.org) aims to provide unprecedented global access to a broad range of information about life on Earth. …”
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A statistical assessment of population trends for data deficient Mexican amphibians by Esther Quintero, Anne E. Thessen, Paulina Arias-Caballero, Bárbara Ayala-Orozco

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Linking multiple biodiversity informatics platforms with Darwin Core Archives by Ed Baker, Simon Rycroft, Vincent Smith

“…Using this single archive file Scratchpad users can expose taxonomies, specimen records, species descriptions and a range of other data to a variety of third-party aggregators and tools (currently Encyclopedia of Life, eMonocot Portal, CartoDB, and the Common Data Model) for secondary use. …”
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BioNames: linking taxonomy, texts, and trees by Roderic D.M. Page

“…BioNames combines classifications from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and GenBank, images from the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), animal names from the Index of Organism Names (ION), and bibliographic data from multiple sources including the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and CrossRef. …”
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Marina Warner, Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Souhir Zekri Masson

“…In The Encyclopedia of Life Writing, Francis Russell Hart is quoted as having written that ‘[m]emoirs personalize history and historicize the personal … memoirs are about individuals,’ but they can reflect ‘an event, an era, an institution, a class identity’ (qtd. in Buss 595). …”
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Publication and dissemination of datasets in taxonomy: ZooKeys working example by Lyubomir Penev, Terry Erwin, Jeremy Miller, Vishwas Chavan, Tom Moritz, Charles Griswold

“…For the first time in systematic zoology, an unique combination of data publication and semantic enhancements is applied within the mainstream process of journal publishing, to demonstrate how: (1) All primary biodiversity data underlying a taxonomic monograph are published as a dataset under a separate DOI within the paper; (2) The occurrence dataset is discoverable and accessible through GBIF data portal (data.gbif.org) simultaneously with the publication; (3) Occurrence dataset is published as a KML file under a distinct DOI to provide an interactive experience in Google Earth; (4) All new taxa (42) are registered at ZooBank during the publication process (mandatory for ZooKeys); (5) All new taxa (42) are provided to Encyclopedia of Life through XML mark up on the day of publication (mandatory for ZooKeys). …”
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Autobiography through Anecdotes in Joe Pieri’s Isle Of The Displaced by Souhir Zekri Masson

“…Associated with such life writing genres as (auto)biographies and memoirs, anecdotes are described as stories which “illustrate particular ideas, concepts, and views of the way a life is lived, making considerable editorial commentary on the nature of a particular ideological moment and the effect of that moment on individual lives.”(Encyclopedia of Life Writing) Anecdotes thus focus on, and highlight, episodes of a person’s life by transforming them into tales and stories using fictional narrative techniques and suspenseful plot twists. …”
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Polytraits: A database on biological traits of marine polychaetes by Sarah Faulwetter, Vasiliki Markantonatou, Christina Pavloudi, Nafsika Papageorgiou, Kleoniki Keklikoglou, Eva Chatzinikolaou, Evangelos Pafilis, Georgios Chatzigeorgiou, Katerina Vasileiadou, Thanos Dailianis, Lucia Fanini, Panayota Koulouri, Christos Arvanitidis

“…All data can be freely accessed through the project website in different ways and formats, both human-readable and machine-readable, and have been submitted to the Encyclopedia of Life for archival and integration with trait information from other sources.…”
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VoSeq: a voucher and DNA sequence web application. by Carlos Peña, Tobias Malm

“…Maps, Flickr, Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) and GBIF (by generating data-dumps that can be processed with GBIF's Integrated Publishing Toolkit).…”
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An appraisal of megascience platforms for biodiversity information by Dagmar Triebel, Gregor Hagedorn, Gerhard Rambold

“…The megascience platforms Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), Catalogue of Life (CoL), Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), International Barcode of Life (iBOL), International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) and JSTOR Plant Science, all belong to a group of global players that harvest, process, repurpose and provide biodiversity data on all kinds of organisms. …”
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Updated checklist of the extant Chondrichthyes within the Exclusive Economic Zone of Mexico by Nicolás Roberto Ehemann, Lorem del Valle González-González, Jorge Guillermo Chollet-Villalpando, José De La Cruz-Agüero

“…The list is based on a literature review of field-specific books, scientific publications and database information from collections and museums worldwide available online such as, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), iSpecies, FishBase and the National Biodiversity Information System (SNIB–CONABIO). …”
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VERSHININA FROM VERSHININO by Татьяна Александровна Сироткина (Tatiana A. Sirotkina)

“…The review also deals with the illustrative material, which is of special value for readers, being a “three-dimensional encyclopedia” of life of the Russian village, its everyday routine and holidays. …”
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Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples by Lyubomir Penev, Donat Agosti, Teodor Georgiev, Terry Catapano, Jeremy Miller, Vladimir Blagoderov, David Roberts, Vincent Smith, Irina Brake, Simon Ryrcroft, Ben Scott, Norman Johnson, Robert Morris, Guido Sautter, Vishwas Chavan, Tim Robertson, David Remsen, Pavel Stoev, Cynthia Parr, Sandra Knapp, W. John Kress, Frederic Thompson, Terry Erwin

“….); (ii) internal cross-linking between paper sections, citations, references, tables, and figures; (iii) mapping of localities listed in the whole paper or within separate taxon treatments; (v) taxon names autotagged, dynamically mapped and linked through the Pensoft Taxon Profile (PTP) to large international database services and indexers such as Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Barcode of Life, Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), ZooBank, Wikipedia, Wkispecies, Wikimedia, and others; (vi) GenBank accession numbers autotagged and linked to NCBI; (vii) external links of taxon names to references in PubMed, Google Scholar, Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources. …”
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Chitinozoan nomenclature and databases by Sonia Camina, Olle Hints, Anthony Butcher

“…Databases such as the Encyclopedia of Life, the Catalogue of Life and the World Register of Marine Species lack chitinozoan records but they are collaborative and provide free global access to knowledge. …”
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