title: Usage patterns of blue flower color representation by Encyclopedia of Life content providers.
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.
authors.affiliation: American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Chantal-Marie
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.affiliation: American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Katja C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Seltmann
keywords: Encyclopedia of Life; Phenotypic Quality Ontology; TraitBank; color models and analysis; user phenotype annotation