1. Catalogue of Life – Indexing the world’s known species A new development phase for the Catalogue of Life (CoL) www.catalogueoflife.org Guy Baillargeon Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa Chair, Catalogue of Life Global Team North American Regional Nodes Meeting, University of Guelph, 11-12 Aug. 2010

2. Catalogue of Life – Indexing the world’s known species Currently: 1,257,735 species animals plants fungi microorganisms Provided by: 77 taxonomic databases 2010 Annual Checklist

3. Catalogue of Life – Indexing the world’s known species CoL – Progress by year

4. Catalogue of Life – Indexing the world’s known species Reshaping the growth curve

5. Catalogue of Life – Indexing the world’s known species Indexing for Life Distributed Dynamic Diversity Databases for Life Two new EC grants 2009-2012 3.3M euro Started Nov 2009 2010-2013 2.45 M euro Starting Nov 2010

6. Catalogue of Life – Indexing the world’s known species CoL until now

7. Catalogue of Life – Indexing the world’s known species CoL soon

8. Catalogue of Life – Indexing the world’s known species Multi-hub network First Batch: China, New Zealand, Brazil, N. America (ITIS), Australia, Europe Second Batch: Colombia (Humboldt), Central America (INBio), Mexico (CONABIO), South Africa (SANBI), East Africa (Kenya), ASEAN countries

9. Catalogue of Life – Indexing the world’s known species Europe China Brasil ITIS N. America ITIS N. America Global Checklist Global Checklist Proto-GSD Semi-automated proto-GSD Harvesting

10. Catalogue of Life – Indexing the world’s known species Indexing for Life

11. Catalogue of Life – Indexing the world’s known species Indexing for Life Distributed Dynamic Diversity Databases for Life Two new EC grants 2009-2012 3.3M euro Started Nov 2009 2010-2013 2.45 M euro Starting Nov 2010