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Vincent S. SmithSimon D. Rycroft & Dave Roberts
Scratchpads“redefining publication”
“getting biodiversity online”
What is a Scratchpad?
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A website for you & your community
What is a Scratchpad?
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Fast Intuitive Fit for use
A website for you & your community
What can Scratchpads do?Import, manage, search & browse:
DNA & Phylogenies
Specimens
Literature Images
What can Scratchpads do?Integration & connectivity within & between sites
DNA & Phylogenies
Specimens
Literature ImagesTaxonomy
Current ScratchpadsAntsBeesBeetlesBig-headed fliesBirdsBlackfliesCiliatesCockroachesDragon TreesDung BeetlesFalse ButtonweedFlat wormsFliesForaminiferaFossil InsectsFungus GnatsHolometabolaLeaf-miner FliesLiceLichens of BermudaMalvaceaeMegalastrum fernsMilichiid fliesMosquitoesMossesNannotax fossilsNepticuloid mothsPalmsPearl oystersPolychaete wormsScaleworms
TermitesTriticid grassesWeevilsWood Ferns
Sulawesi FernsStick insects
Sites: 61Users: 665Pages: 130kSince March 2007
Scratchpad applications
4th Edition Howard & Moore, Birds of the world(fact checking, data compilation, 2010, funding)
A multipurpose, flexible technology
eBooks
Scratchpad applications
European Mosquito Bulletin (ISSN 1460-6127), Phasmid Studies (ISSN 0966-0011)(submission, review, & dissemination of articles)
A multipurpose, flexible technology
eJournals
Scratchpad applications
Image galleries
A multipurpose, flexible technology
Nanno fossils, Cockroaches, Stick insects, Flatworms, Grasses, Lichens & many more… (rapid upload, annotation, & display of images)
ZOOTAXAA rapid international journal for animal taxonomistsISSN 1175-5326 (Print Edition) & ISSN 1175-5334 (Online Edition)
Scratchpad applicationsA multipurpose, flexible technology
GBIF, Zootaxa, Threatened Plants of the World (Kew), BarCoVer (DNA Barcoding) & more (space for data collection, services, discussion, & organization)
Societies & Organizations
Scratchpad usageContent & contributors in the first 15 months
Pages:- Across 61 sites- In detail:
• Definitions (41%)• References (26%)• Associations (8.5%)• DNA sequences (6%)
• Images (4.5%)• Maps (2.8%)• Specimens (2.1%)• Others (1.3%)
129,896 pages, 665 contributors
June 24 2008
Scratchpad usage
Contributors:- No more than 10% significantly active- Contributors in more than 30 countries- In detail:
• Europe (55%)• Unknown (29%)• North America (9%)• Asia (3%)
• Australasia (2.5%)• South America (2%)• Russia (0.8%)• Middle East (0.4%) [Jan. 08]
129,896 pages, 665 contributors
June 24 2008
Content & contributors in the first 15 months
Scratchpad visitorsTracking visitors across sites
Key monthly statistics- 50,000 page views - 6,000 visitors- 8 minutes on site- 50% returning visits
(average per month 08’)
What can Scratchpads do?Instantly build a site & curate the Web
PanelsGoogle scholar, Yahoo! Images, flickr, Wikipedia, BHL, NCBI sequences, GBIF maps (species page templates to integrate user data with quality information on the wider Web)
What can Scratchpads do?Instantly build a site & curate the Web
Google scholar, Yahoo! Images, flickr, Wikipedia, BHL, NCBI sequences, GBIF maps (species page templates to integrate user data with quality information on the wider Web)
Panels
What can Scratchpads do?Instantly build a site & curate the Web
An instant website with 1.1 million species pages that you can curate (http://dev.catlife.myspecies.info)
An example using the catalogue of life classification
Automaticallyclassify content
Drag and dropcuration
Cite a page
Get creditfor your work
http://Scratchpads.euApply for your site now…
http://Scratchpads.euTake a site for a test drive…
http://Scratchpads.euOr just find out more…
To do…- 100+ help videos - Integration with EOL- Interaction between sites- More panels (CBoL, IUCN)- Better taxonomy management- More functions (Ecol. interactions)
Thanks…
Simon Rycroft Ben Scott Dave Roberts
Questions?
Scratchpad managementScalable & sustainable technology
Virtual machine, open-source software, self-archiving, backed-up, multi-site configuration(easy to move & upgrade, secure & reliable, citable, screencasts, low admin., low marginal costs)
Hardware, software & user support
Scratchpad applicationsA multipurpose, flexible technology
Taxon pages with Taxonomy & LiteratureFungus gnats, Mosquito inventory, World Bee checklist, Catalogue of common names…
(rapid upload and management of names, synonyms & bibliographic data)
Scratchpad applicationsA multipurpose, flexible technology
Holometabolous Insects Phylogenetic Database, BarCoVer (DNA Barcoding) & more (import & management of DNA sequences, phylogenies & specimen records)
DNA, Phylogeny & Specimens