buying or printing trading cards

[agt24]

Thank you for this amazing project.

I'm interested in buying or printing a set of the EMP trading cards discussed here for use in my wife's Montessori school.

I have many questions (e.g. How many cards are available? Are they in the public domain? Can download a full set of PDFs? etc.) but I'm not sure if this is the right forum.

Could someone point me in the right direction?

[colinbrislawn]

This is a great idea! Thanks for getting in touch with the team! 🎒 🎴

Luke Thompson (@cuttlefishh) is the lead on this project, but I can try to answer some of your questions.

You have already discovered the links to the cards: http://www.earthmicrobiome.org/trading-cards/
As you have seen, these have the format and layout of 'wanted posters' more then trading cards. I'm not sure if a pocket sized version has been created.

Looks like you can build your own cards using this script, but hopefully someone has done this already just to make your life easier 😉.

While the license for the cards is not listed on the page, the license for the rest of this repository and project is BSD-3 Clause, which is a really easy license to use. Luke can verify that this license also covers the cards. https://github.com/biocore/emp/blob/master/LICENSE

[cuttlefishh]

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the kind words. We love to see people so excited by the project.

As Colin said, the only PDFs that are ready to go for download and printing are the ones linked from http://www.earthmicrobiome.org/trading-cards/. Additionally, as Colin also said, you can generate all the cards you want using the code and data on GitHub. Yes, the cards are in the public domain and you're welcome to print and reuse them as you like.

If you're looking for something a little more user-friendly, you might want to consider some of the other microbial trading cards out there. Of course the EMP ones are cool because they show distribution statistics across the global EMP dataset, but some of the other commercially/academically available options may be more ready to go, and might save you from printing and cutting your own.

Here are a few options (you might be able to find additional ones):

• http://phylogame.org/decks/microbe-collection/page/4/
• https://www.amazon.com/Microbe-Cards-Mark-S-Peppler/dp/1555812171
• http://www.mostlymicrobes.com/gc2/
• https://twitter.com/socialmicrobes/status/955539583013355521

Luke