1. Progress Alastair Culham

2. i4Life – the BIG aim To move Catalogue of Life from a research project to a sustainable service 1.To enhance the content 2.To enhance the e-infrastructure 3.To enhance the user base

3. Without content there is no CoL CommunityQuality Added value Content

4. The last half million Search for new sources Building proto GSDs Funding new data I, Tequila [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA- 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5- 2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Tessaratomidae Pandaceae Ferns

5. E-infrastructure New! 135!

6. i4Life download service interface

7. The i4Life Cross-mapping Tools For partners to be able to share species information and for comparing how taxonomy differs from one organisation to another. The Cross-map tools recognise several relationships between taxa:

8. The piping tools workflow The strength of the CoL is that expert contributions are harvested from the GSD array whose custodians are experts and themselves maintain the taxonomy of a given taxonomic sector. Contributions of names/taxa will not be accepted centrally, but will be partitioned (according to which GSD is responsible) and ‘piped’ out to the 100 or so databases for them to incorporate.

9. Global Partner EMBL-EBI Taxon-centric portal Prior to i4Life Taxonomy Sequence to taxon associations treated as simple annotations No connectivity through simple interface After i4Life Dedicated warehouse Taxonomic names Lineages Data associations Associated services Browse Search Web interface REST interface http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/warehouse/search?portal=taxon

10. Global Partner UICN IUCN Red List Name found in IUCN RedList… http://www.iucnredlist.org/search

11. Global Partner Barcodes i4Life - links with two Bar-coding Laboratories in Europe:  Uploading and downloading from to the Nematode taxonomy & barcode system (Warsaw)  Linking with BOLD database via European BOLD mirror at KNAW; uploading and downloading to the MycoBank plus Plants barcode database at CVS Utrecht http://www.fungalbarcoding.org/

12. Global Partner Life Watch/EDIT To design, prototype, test, and implement an interface for importing the CoL into a new instance of the EDIT platform for Cybertaxonomy at an agreed frequency. To expose the EDIT-CoL instance via a robust and well-documented service- interface to the emerging LifeWatch infrastructure.

13. Spreading the news Twitter – developed in 4D4Life @catalogueoflife Facebook – developed in i4Life https://www.facebook.com/CatalogueOfLife Blog – developed in i4Life http://blog.catalogueoflife.org/ CoL Web pages – completely redesigned http://www.catalogueoflife.org/ User survey – we need your views (Closes end September 2013) http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/reading/colusersurvey

14. New web pages

15. CoL Blog

16. CoL Facebook/Twitter

17. User Survey Most liked Largest available single compendium of expert- reviewed taxonomic data Ability to download annual checklist to local copy for bulk comparisons/data uploads One access point to data from other databases I think CoL is a valuable experiment to see if producing a giant taxonomy is a useful task Least liked not enough cladistic information Not complete! Lack of data sharing policy that makes it possible to re-use taxonomy in other projects the lack of links to other resources on those species too much clicking to get to the data you want and the records in COL seem incomplete as compared to the source database

18. Catalogue of Life – User Community

19. Tree Swing Model

20. i4Life Real aims i4Life must deliver A useful CoL An engaged group of data providers An engaged group of service collaborators A solid user base A workable infrastructure Credit for work done now and in the future

21. Future developments User needs More sophisticated searches More complete data – life zone, geography, literature Hyperlinked references – e.g. BHL Europe User annotation and feedback Graphical interface Taxon identification features

22. Future priorities Re-inventing the wheel – a regularly updated e-infrastructure We also need to rebuild the road with new blocks of data

23. What is the purpose of ? To act as a voice for the many constituent databases To leverage funding to support them To maintain a coordinated taxonomic community

24. Partners & Credit Indexing for Life Project (November 2010 – October 2013) Co-ordinator University of Reading, UK Global Biodiversity Programmes 1.GBIF 2.EMBL-EBI 3.Barcode of Life 4.IUCN Red List 5.LifeWatch 6.Encyclopedia of Life Catalogue of Life Community 1.Sp2000 2.ITIS 3.University of Reading 4.Naturalis (ETI) 5.Cardiff University 6.MNHN Paris