EOL Computable Data Challenge Deadline Extended to 5/31/12
Good news everyone: the EOL Computable Data Challenge deadline for entries has been extended to Thursday, May 31, 2012.
We invite ideas for scientific research projects that use Encyclopedia of Life http://www.eol.org, including the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL, http://biodiversitylibrary.org), to answer questions in biology. EOL and BHL have assembled text and multimedia about more than a million taxa from more than two hundred organismal databases and 38 million digitized pages of biodiversity literature. Everything is in the public domain or available for text mining and re-use under explicit Creative Commons licenses.
The specific field of biological interest for the challenge is open. EOL may be used as a source of biological data, to establish a sampling strategy, to assist the retrieval of computable data by mapping identifiers across sources (e.g. to accomplish name resolution), and/or in other innovative ways. Projects involving data or text or image mining of EOL or BHL content are encouraged.
Total available prize funds are US$50,000. Multiple awards are possible, depending on submitted budgets. All prize funds must be spent before May 31, 2013.
More information on how to enter is available at http://www.eol.org/info/data_challenge.
