Usage patterns of blue flower color representation by Encyclopedia of Life content providers

By

Seltmann, Katja
Wright, Chantal-Marie

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014-08-11

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

2

Pages

1--12

Subjects

 color models and analysis ,  TraitBank , Encyclopedia of Life , Phenotypic Quality Ontology , user phenotype annotation

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1143
eLocator: e1143

 

Abstract

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a resource for community-driven biodiversity data, focusing on species information and images. Research into blue flowers to compare color ('blueness') at different elevations revealed that data content providers describe flowers as blue for any color hue in the range from blue to magenta. We propose methods for standardizing color values and color searching within EOL by means of an expanded color vocabulary and improved access to image metadata, in order to improve the research capacity of this valuable resource.