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Encyclopedia of Life

Abbreviation:EOL

General Information

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a collaborative encyclopedia to describe all known living species. It identifies sources of biodiversity knowledge that are legally and practically shareable; integrates them with other sources and adds metadata; provides searching and other services; and collaborates with other projects to support data sharing.

Homepage https://eol.org/

Countries that developed this resource Australia , Egypt , Mexico , United States

Created in 2008

Taxonomic range

All

Knowledge Domains

Subjects

User-defined Tags

Data sharing

How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: EOL; Encyclopedia of Life; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.3J6NYn; Last edited: May 4, 2020, 11:08 a.m.; Last accessed: Sep 25 2021 9:49 p.m.

This record is maintained by jhammock

Record added: Jan. 21, 2020, 1:23 p.m.
Record updated: Jan. 23, 2020, 9:26 a.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.3J6NYn' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 09:26, 23 Jan 2020 (approved):

	'organizations' has been modified:
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			Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA|https://naturalhistory.si.edu/|Maintains
			Bibliotheca Alexandrina|https://www.bibalex.org/|Undefined
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			Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA|https://naturalhistory.si.edu/|Maintains
			Bibliotheca Alexandrina|https://www.bibalex.org/|Maintains
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			Bibliotheca Alexandrina|https://www.bibalex.org/|Maintains
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			Bibliotheca Alexandrina|https://www.bibalex.org/|Undefined

Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.3J6NYn' by 'jhammock' at 17:02, 22 Jan 2020 (approved):

	'tools' has been modified:
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			VERA Modelling||http://vera.cc.gatech.edu/docs/example
			EOL Biodiversity Cards|2020|https://education.eol.org/card_maker
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			VERA Modelling|1.1.3|http://vera.cc.gatech.edu/docs/example
			EOL Biodiversity Cards|2020|https://education.eol.org/card_maker
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			VERA Modelling|1.1.3|http://vera.cc.gatech.edu/docs/example
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			VERA Modelling||http://vera.cc.gatech.edu/docs/example

Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.3J6NYn' by 'jhammock' at 17:01, 22 Jan 2020 (approved):

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			VERA Modelling||http://vera.cc.gatech.edu/docs/example
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			VERA Modelling||http://vera.cc.gatech.edu/docs/example
			EOL Biodiversity Cards|2020|https://education.eol.org/card_maker
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			EOL Biodiversity Cards|2020|https://education.eol.org/card_maker
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Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.3J6NYn' by 'jhammock' at 16:59, 22 Jan 2020 (approved):

	'standardsImplemented' has been modified:
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			NCBI Taxonomy
			World Register of Marine Species
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			UBER anatomy ONtology
			Phenotypic QualiTy Ontology
			Darwin Core
			OBO Relations Ontology
			Wikidata Identifier
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			UBER anatomy ONtology
			Phenotypic QualiTy Ontology
			Darwin Core
			OBO Relations Ontology
			Wikidata Identifier
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			NCBI Taxonomy
			World Register of Marine Species

Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.3J6NYn' by 'jhammock' at 16:55, 22 Jan 2020 (approved):

	'organizations' has been modified:
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			Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA|https://naturalhistory.si.edu/|Maintains
			Atlas of Living Australia, Australia|http://downloads.ala.org.au/p/Open%20DELTA|Maintains
			Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA|http://www.harvard.edu|Maintains
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			Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA|https://naturalhistory.si.edu/|Maintains
			Bibliotheca Alexandrina|https://www.bibalex.org/|Undefined
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			Bibliotheca Alexandrina|https://www.bibalex.org/|Undefined
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			Atlas of Living Australia, Australia|http://downloads.ala.org.au/p/Open%20DELTA|Maintains
			Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA|http://www.harvard.edu|Maintains

	'supportLinks' has been modified:
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			email|hammockj@si.edu
			forum|https://discuss.eol.org/
			online documentation|https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol
			twitter|@eol
			wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Life
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			email|secretariat@eol.org
			forum|https://discuss.eol.org/
			online documentation|https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol
			twitter|@eol
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			email|secretariat@eol.org
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			email|hammockj@si.edu
			wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Life

	'contactORCID' has been modified:
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		After: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9943-2342

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			Australia
			United States
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			Australia
			Egypt
			Mexico
			United States
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			Egypt
			Mexico
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	'licences' has been modified:
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			MIT Licence|https://opensource.org/licenses/mit|Software
			Various Creative Commons licenses|https://creativecommons.org/licenses/|Data
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			MIT Licence|https://opensource.org/licenses/mit|Software
			Various Creative Commons licenses|https://creativecommons.org/licenses/|Data
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	'onto_disciplines' has been modified:
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			Biodiversity
			Taxonomy
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			Biodiversity
			Biology
			Ecology
			Taxonomy
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			Biology
			Ecology
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	'dataProcesses' has been modified:
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			Download via Queries
			Advanced Search
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			Download platform
			Advanced Search
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			Download platform
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			Download via Queries

	'accessPoints' has been modified:
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			REST|https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol/data-services|EOL APIs
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			REST|https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol/data-services|EOL media and article APIs
			Other|https://github.com/EOL/eol_website/blob/master/doc/api.md|EOL trait and structured data APIs
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			REST|https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol/data-services|EOL media and article APIs
			Other|https://github.com/EOL/eol_website/blob/master/doc/api.md|EOL trait and structured data APIs
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			REST|https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol/data-services|EOL APIs

Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.3J6NYn' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 13:30, 21 Jan 2020 (approved):

	'related_databases' has been modified:
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			The Barcode of Life Data Systems
			European Nucleotide Archive
			Global Biodiversity Information Facility
			Biodiversity Heritage Library
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			The Barcode of Life Data Systems
			Global Biodiversity Information Facility
			Biodiversity Heritage Library
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			European Nucleotide Archive

Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.3J6NYn' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 13:25, 21 Jan 2020 (approved):

	'user_defined_tags' has been modified:
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			Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA|https://naturalhistory.si.edu/|Maintains
			Atlas of Living Australia, Australia|http://downloads.ala.org.au/p/Open%20DELTA|Maintains
			Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA|http://www.harvard.edu|Maintains
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			Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA|https://naturalhistory.si.edu/|Maintains
			Atlas of Living Australia, Australia|http://downloads.ala.org.au/p/Open%20DELTA|Maintains
			Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA|http://www.harvard.edu|Maintains
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	'onto_disciplines' has been modified:
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			Biodiversity
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			Biodiversity
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	'onto_domains' has been modified:
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			Taxonomic classification
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Support

General

support email	Jen Hammock
forum	EOL Open Forum
online documentation	About
twitter	@eol

Additional Information

Contact

EOL Secretariat ORCID

Tools

VERA Modelling	http://vera.cc.gatech.edu/docs/example	1.1.3
EOL Biodiversity Cards	https://education.eol.org/card_maker	2020

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

Various Creative Commons licenses

Applies to: Database software

MIT Licence

Data Release

Download platform

https://opendata.eol.org/

Data Access

Advanced Search

https://eol.org/terms/search

REST Web Services

EOL media and article APIs

https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol/data-services

Other Web Services

EOL trait and structured data APIs

https://github.com/EOL/eol_website/blob/master/doc/api.md

Publications

No publications available

Related Standards

Reporting Guidelines

No guidelines defined

Terminology Artifacts

Models and Formats

No syntax standards defined

Identifier Schemas

Wikidata Identifier

Metrics

No metrics standards defined

Related Databases

Implementing Policies

This record is not implemented by any policy.

Credit

Record Maintainer

This record is maintained by jhammock

Maintains

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA (Government body)
Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Government body)

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