Post on 18-Dec-2015
Irina Brake, Natural History Museum, London
EDIT CDM portals and taxonomic editor –
the Milichiidae portal
• Funded for 5 years by the European Commission (until Feb. 2011)
• A Network of Excellence aimed at encouraging integration of effort in taxonomy across EU institutions.
• Has several ‘Workpackages’– one is building IT tools for taxonomists (WP5)– another is examining how to bring revisionary
taxonomy to the web (WP6)
European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)
Insect exemplar group
Diverse approach to bringing revisionary taxonomy online:• ‘Bottom up’: Scratchpads for free choice of
scope, quantity and presentation of data (WP6)
Insect exemplar group
Diverse approach to bringing revisionary taxonomy online:• ‘Bottom up’: Scratchpads for free choice of
scope, quantity and presentation of data (WP6)• ‘Top down’: Taxonomic editor and data portal for
high quality nomenclatural and taxonomic data (WP5)
Platform Cybergate
http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/platform
Free text areaDetails area
Taxonomic tree area
Free text areaDetails area
Media
Taxonomic tree area
Descriptive data Supplemental data
Diptera portal (http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/dataportal/diptera/)
Classification tree
Search box
Species page
Citations
Links to references
Description
Distribution
Nomenclatural data
Images
Palmweb & Cichorieae portal
http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/cdm-setups
Installation for a taxonomic community
Long term prospects
• ViBRANT (Dec 2010, 3 years) (CDM)• I4Life (~Dec 2010, 3 years) (CDM)• e-monocot (CDM)• e-flora exemplar groups (portals)• EDIT botanic exemplar groups (portals)• BGBM Berlin will maintain CDM library, CDM
store, Taxonomic Editor, portal software & Specimen Explorer beyond EDIT
Thanks to:
the WP5 team:• Anahit Babadshanjan, Walter Berendsohn, Pepe
Ciardelli, Markus Döring, Anton Güntsch, Niels Hoffmann, Andreas Kohlbecker, Katja Luther, Andreas Müller
the WP6 team:• Bill Baker, Ralf Hand, Norbert Kilian, Simon
Mayo, Malcolm Scoble, Eckhard von Raab-Straube, Dave Roberts, Soraya Villalba