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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
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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
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Regional faunistic and floral treatments
Examples of use:
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Invasive species resources
Examples of use:
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Journals and news groups
Examples of use:
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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
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Taxon pages
Overview of data related to taxon
Generated from tagged content
The main features
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Store, manage, export and share data
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Dynamic Biological Classifications
Manually entered or imported
Auto generated
The main features
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Distribution maps
Google maps based
Data layers
Occurrence data
Distribution dataTDWG regions
GBIF data
The main features
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Structured data
Publish, cite,disseminate & archive data
Select, describe &
annotate dataPublication module
Major repositories
Publication Module (beta)
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data
mobilisation
more on the way…
External services Integration
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Help & Support
• In-site Support
• Wiki
• Training Courses
• Ambassadors Programme
• Embedded Issues Queue
• Sandbox Site
http://help.scratchpads.eu
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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
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http://scratchpads.eu