Hi Gregor,<div><br></div><div>You are right. I don&#39;t really get any info directly from the EoL other than some names, or the authorship of a name I have manually.</div><div><br></div><div>I have started to link to images on DBpedia and if I pull any in because the  links are unstable then I add the image metadata in the RDF.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It is my understanding that thumbnails representations 128x128 or 135x95 or smaller are ok to use, based on cases involving Google and Bings use of thumbnails.</div><div><br></div><div>It would be useful to create an open but attributed set of images for each species that we could share.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It is my understanding that if they are open, Amazon might be willing to host them for free.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to be able to link to specimens in GBIF etc or publications in the BHL that contain at least a minimal amount of metadata.</div>
<div><br></div><div>* It would also be useful to have a standard set of URI&#39;s that could be used to track credit to ITIS etc. I could create a simple RDF vocabulary for this but it might be best to</div><div>  have it hosted at TDWG, EoL or GBIF.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Pete<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Gregor Hagedorn <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com">g.m.hagedorn@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">&gt; There is no reason that the EoL, GBIF or both could not adopt and take<br>
&gt; ownership of what I am working on.<br>
<br>
</div>I think one of the problems is that we have no model of collaborative<br>
working under Open Source / Open Content licenses in the biodiversity<br>
community. Most try to define unlicensed monopolies (whether for<br>
commercial exploitation or just the next grant).<br>
<br>
EoL is almost exclusively build on closed content (with bilateral<br>
agreements allowing them to display the &quot;Creative Commons<br>
Non-Commercial&quot; content). I don&#39;t imply this is a failure of EoL, it<br>
is the status of the community.<br>
<br>
As a result, there is no &quot;we&quot; and little synergies.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Gregor<br>
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