A plug for Encyclopedia of Life and DiscoverLife

[Malcolm Storey]

There are many outstanding images on photomacrography.net but they get lost among the other postings. It’d be nice to get such high quality images more widely visible in a structured archive.

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a nice structured archive to which you can upload CC images.
https://www.flickr.com/groups/encyclopedia_of_life/
“CC” means it should have one of the CC licences. CC-BY-NC is the most restrictive they accept.

I use DiscoverLife (DL) for my image hosting (and serve images for my own website off it).
http://www.discoverlife.org/
They offer unlimited free storage for taxon-related CC images.
“Offer” means free – in fact they’re positively welcomed.
“Unlimited” means truly that (I’ve just passed 100,000 images, 20 gigabytes)
There’s no limit on image size and they’re happy to accept straight-from-the-camera.
“taxon-related” means it should be identified to a named taxon – ideally at least to species but can be a higher level taxon like “Lepidoptera”.
“CC” means it should have one of the CC licences. Again CC-BY-NC is the most restrictive they accept.
More details here:
http://www.discoverlife.org/get_involved.html

You can use DL as an image server for your own websites. It stores several standard sizes of thumbnails for each image as well as dynamically generating arbitrary scaled images. EXIF data is mostly preserved and they can replace/update the copyright statement as the image is served. Individual images are referenced by a simple URL, but more complex HTML gives access to other features.
http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/id/20q/2 ... l#services

There are links from DL to EOL, so ideally store the images on DL but also link them on EOL.

If you have a lot of images and they're are databased, both websites can accept text files to drive the import or update the identifications.