Encyclopedia of Life Blog

The EOL-sponsored Drupal Sprint is in the final hour and there has been some immense success. The crux of this 4-day event was to attach metadata to terms and to enable relationships among terms. This sort of background work means that in the context of biology, we have a mechanism to store information about whether or not a term (i.e. a scientific name) is a synonym of another, whether a species has a relationship with another species (e.g. is a parasite of, is a predator of, etc.). There were some contributed modules that started this whole process. These can be found on the Taxonomy Drupal Groups website for the sprint.

Left to Right:

Simon Rycroft, Nathaniel Catchpole, Anthony Goddard, Lisa Walley, Roger Espinosa, Matthias Hutterer, Cyndy Parr, Dan Morrison, Chacha Sikes, David Shorthouse, Benjamin Doherty, Vitthal Kudal, Alexey Shipunov, Ben Melancon (missing: Vince Smith)

A big thanks goes out to the BioSync team at the Field Museum in Chicago who orchestrated much of the organization. Without their assistance and facility, the sprint would most certainly have been difficult to pull off.

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