Summary of the current status of Encyclopedia of Life China

1. Data Flow and Contents
in EOL China Center
EOL China Regional Center
Biodiversity Committee, CAS
March 9, 2012

2. Implementation of
EOL China data system
Web service EOL-China Portal Web service
Web service
EOL-China Animal EOL-China Microbial
EOL-China Plant

3. Structure of management and
service in EOL China
System manager
EOL-China Portal Public
Web service
Curator,
Data manager Disciplinary Databases and websites Public
Data import in xml files
EOL China service system in Bisby Core format
taxonomists
（data provider） Species databases of taxa

4. Data flow of Animal Database
Import in xml
Animal database CoL China
harvesting harvesting
harvesting
Chinese Mammal database Chinese spider database
Chinese bird database

5. Data flow of Plant Database
Import in xml
Plant database CoL China
harvesting harvesting
harvesting
harvesting
Chinese Virtual Herbarium Plant photo database
Chinese high plant database Chinese Nature Museum

6. Procedure of data collection for EOL
China databases
EOL Xml files
CoL China
China （Bisby Core） database
database
Bird
database
Species Mammal
data database
manage
ment
system
Spider
database

7. Components of Bisby Core
 There are 5 components in a Bisby Core
standard document:
 The taxonomic tree component: describe the
information of a taxonomic tree, such as the
name of the tree, the author of tree, etc.
 The taxon information component: describe the
taxonomic relevant data of taxon;
 The data object component: describes attributes
of taxon in text and/or multimedia format;
 The reference component: describe information
about references;
 The people component: describe information of
expert who make scrutiny.

8. Data Source of EOL China
 All species data in EOL China are from
species databases of animal, plant and
microbial building up by Institute of
Zoology, Institute of Botany and Institute of
Microbiology, CAS, which collect data from
monographs, scientific papers, website and
reviewed by taxonomists. The names of
taxonomists are listed in the species pages
as an object of the species.
 The copyright information are attached with
the object data as in EOL website.

9. Portal of EOL China

10. Animal website of EOL Chin

11. Plant website of EOL China

12. Microbial website of EOL Chi

13. Statistics for contents in EOL-China
Total Rich Text Only Only
pages pages pages images names
Animal
(Mammalia, 9909 2237 1722 52 5898
Aves , Arachnida)
Plant
(Gymnospermae, 10003 2891 0 4505 2607
Orchidaceae)
Microbial
(Ganodermatace 2259 1873 386 0 0
ae, Tremellales,
Polyporaceae)
total 22171 7001 2108 4557 8505

14. Example of rich pages
 http://animal.eolchina.org/pages/10581
 http://animal.eolchina.org/pages/10406
 http://animal.eolchina.org/pages/10435
 http://animal.eolchina.org/pages/7060

15. Content development
Building up new species data in Chinese by taxonomists
 Next year
 Animal: fish, butterfly – 600 species
 Plant: Gymnospermae, Orchidaceae – 2000 species
 Microbial:
Boletaceae, Laboulbeniales, Geastraceae, Nidulariales, C
yanophyta, Meliolales, Uredinales, Aspergillus
– 1000 species
 Next 2 years
 Animal: amphibian, butterfly – 800 species
 Plant: important plant – 3000 species
 Microbial:
Boletaceae, Laboulbeniales, Geastraceae, Nidulariales, C
yanophyta – 1000 species
 High rank taxa data, genus, family, order, ……