Fourth Annual Summit | Feb 21-23 2014 | Tucson, AZ Scratchpads for community involvement for natural history collections Dr Dimitris K Biodiversity Informatics Group | Department of Life Sc Natural History Museum Fourth Annual Summit | Feb 21-23 | Tucson
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Fourth Annual Summit | Feb 21-23 2014 | Tucson, AZ
Scratchpads for community involvement for natural history collections
Dr Dimitris KoureasBiodiversity Informatics Group | Department of Life Sciences
Natural History Museum London
Fourth Annual Summit | Feb 21-23 | Tucson, AZ
Fourth Annual Summit | Feb 21-23 2014 | Tucson, AZ
Inaccessible | native format/private silos
Disconnected | not aggregated or discoverable
Redundant | overlapping efforts no coordination
Cluttered | small and dispersed datasets
20% 80%
The long tail of Biodiversity data
What is we try to tackle?
Typically produced by small communities
Fourth Annual Summit | Feb 21-23 2014 | Tucson, AZ
Virtual Research Environmentsefficient in incentivising and enabling researchers to mobilise their data
Online collaborative environments
“Our goal is to make every researcher digital”
Can VREs help?
Underlying technologies that help semantically enrich and aggregate data on a higher level
Provide efficient tools, simple interfaces and comprehensive documentation
Incentivise researchers to enter, share and finally mobilise their datasets
Fourth Annual Summit | Feb 21-23 2014 | Tucson, AZ
Enter – Structure – Curate – Link – PublishBiodiversity data online
7 years of continuing development | 3 major Grants | Industry leading platform
Fourth Annual Summit | Feb 21-23 2014 | Tucson, AZ
22%
78%
Content
Specimen records/Taxon descriptions
Other
65,000 unique visitors/month
Per month unique visitors to Scratchpads sites
660 Scratchpads Communities
by 7,100 active registered users
covering 90,000 taxa
in 615,000 pages.
In total more than
1,600,000 visitors
Fourth Annual Summit | Feb 21-23 2014 | Tucson, AZ