Scratchpads An online platform for biodiversity da Laurence Liverm Biodiversity Informatics | Department of Life Sci Natural History Museum L 2015 NFBR and BES Con A Question of Ecology – Answers from Biological Re
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ScratchpadsAn online platform for biodiversity data
Laurence LivermoreBiodiversity Informatics | Department of Life Sciences
Natural History Museum London
2015 NFBR and BES ConferenceA Question of Ecology – Answers from Biological Recording
What are Scratchpads?
Hosted websites for biodiversity data
Virtual research & publication platform
Completely open access & open source
Modular & flexible
Running for over 7 years with 680+ sites and 6,700+
users
Regional faunistic and floral treatments
Examples of use:
Invasive species resources
Examples of use:
Journals and news groups
Examples of use:
Dynamic taxon pages using tagged content
The main features
Support for storing and managing many data types
Tools to manage biological classifications
Publication module (beta) – formally publish using data in your Scratchpad
Extensive tools for importing and exporting data from external services
Regional (inc. Vice Counties) and coordinate-based distribution maps
Taxon pages
Overview of data related to taxon
Generated from tagged content
The main features
Store, manage, export and share data
Dynamic Biological Classifications
Manually entered or imported
Auto generated
The main features
Distribution maps
Google maps based
Data layers
Occurrence data
Distribution dataTDWG regions
GBIF data
The main features
Structured data
Publish, cite,disseminate & archive data
Select, describe &
annotate dataPublication module
Major repositories
Publication Module (beta)
data
mobilisation
more on the way…
External services Integration
Help & Support
• In-site Support
• Wiki
• Training Courses
• Ambassadors Programme
• Embedded Issues Queue
• Sandbox Site
http://help.scratchpads.eu
Scratchpads strategic steering- Vince Smith, Dimitris Koureas, Simon Rycroft
Scratchpads technical development- Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Ed Baker, Alice Heaton, Katherine Bouton, Khalid Almaini
Scratchpads outreach- Laurence Livermore, Isa van de Velde & Dimitris Koureas
ViBRANT- Vince Smith, Dave Roberts & Lucy Reeve
Pensoft- Lyubomir Penev and the Pensoft team
Our 6700 users
Acknowledgements
http://scratchpads.eu
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