Virtual Biodiversity ViBRANT Scripting Life: ViBRANT’s kick-off meeting Vince Smith Natural History Museum, London [email protected] ViBRANT Virtual Biodiversity
Scripting Life: ViBRANT's Kickoff meeting
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Entomology departmental meeting, at the Natural History Museum, London, UK. Feb 9th, 2011.
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Virtual BiodiversityViBRANT
Scripting Life:ViBRANT’s kick-off meeting
Vince SmithNatural History Museum, London
ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity
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• Hosted websites for taxonomists• Research & publication platform • Modular (Drupal) & flexible • Supports the taxonomic workflow• 2,500 users (unpaid) from 2007• Ecosystem of communities (~200)
ViBRANT’s foundationhttp://scratchpads.eu
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What is ViBRANT?
• A Virtual Research Environment (Scratchpads) where users can safely store, share and manage data.
• Analytical services for users to build identification keys and phylogenetic trees.• A publication platform for users to automatically compile manuscripts from their
research database.• A portal for users to centrally access publicly accessible biodiversity research
information and literature.• Training, support & sociological study, helping research communities to use
these tools and services.• A standards compliant technical architecture that can be sustained by
biodiversity research community.
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ViBRANT is about creating the best Virtual ResearchEnvironment for the taxonomic & systematic research community
In sum…
http://vbrant.eu
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ViBRANT logistics• Started December 2010 (36 months)• Project website (http://vbrant.eu)• Virtual Research Communities, CP-CSA, EU FP7• €6.2M Euros (EU Contribution €4.75M)• 17 Partners in 9 countries, 603 person months
Collaboration (not just EU)…• ESFRI Projects: LifeWatch, ELIXIR & EMBRC• GBIF - controlled vocabularies, nodes & observational data recording• PESI, 4D4Life & related EU projects• Encyclopedia of Life, Barcode of Life & Biodiversity Heritage Library• South African National Biodiversity Institute & Atlas of living Australia
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Scripting Life
20-21 January, 2011Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Paris, France
http://vbrant.eu/scripting-life
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Scripting Life goals
Primary• Introductions • Contributions & roles (ViBRANT is complex)• Highlight admin. & legal obligations• Medium term-planning
ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity
Background considerations• Our audiences (old & new) - VIBRANT is about engagement• Functional overlaps (internally & externally)• Scheduling, dependencies, status reporting, risks• Processes & standards of delivery• External engagement & opportunities• Most of ViBRANT is NOT research
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59 Presentations48 on day-two!
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Twitter @vbrant140 characters or less
• “Tweet” what you are doing • #scriptlife meeting hashtag• Include @vbrant in your tweet• Include #wp[1-8] for your workpkg. • Download an app.
http://twitter.com/vbrant
http://vbrant.eu/content/using-twitter
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Memorable Moments
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