Simon D. RycroftVincent S. Smith & Dave Roberts

Scratchpads“Biodiversity online”“Redefining publication”

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What is a Scratchpad?

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DNA & PhylogeniesDescriptions

Taxonomy backbone• Classification import from uBio Classification Bank

• Import from tab delimited files in three differentformats

• Makes use of a core feature of Drupal

Auto tagging• Quick and easy

• Data available immediately after upload

• Works with any extra data that may be added to ataxonomy (vernacular names, synonymy)

Sucking lice (Anoplura) have around 500 species andrepresent the smaller of the two traditional suborders of lice.The Anoplura are all blood-feeding ectoparasites of mammals.They can cause localised skin irritations and are vectors ofseveral blood-borne diseases.

Children appear particularly susceptible to attracting lice,possibly due to their fine hair.

At least three species of Anoplura are parasites of humans; thehuman condition of being infested with sucking lice is calledpediculosis. Pediculus humanus is divided into two subspecies,Pediculus humanus humanus, or the body louse, sometimesnicknamed "the seam squirrel" for its habit of laying of eggs inthe seams of clothing, and Pediculus humanus capitis, or thehead louse. Phthirus pubis (the pubic louse) is the cause of thecondition known as crabs.

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On your site

Taxon pages• Content is displayed in “Panels” on “taxon pages”

• Panels is a plugin feature for Drupal provided by athird party

• Extended with “View controls”

Curate the web• View controls allows a user of a Scratchpad to

effectively curate content from the web.

• Currently have panels for:– Wikipedia

– Flickr

– Yahoo Images

– Biodiversity Heritage Library / Google scholar

– NCBI

– GBIF specimen location maps

Default Panels

Additional features• Enterprise backup

– TSM on the Scratchpads’ server

– Intend to include an additional tape archive

• Additional modules– Nested set query

– Tinytax taxonomy browser

– Autocomplete taxonomic name browsing

Scratchpad statisticsOver100,000 pages, and 650 contributors

• Contributors:– No more than 10% significantly active– Contributors in more than 30 countries

• Pages– Over 60 Sites– Largely made up of definitions and references, but also includes images,

specimens, descriptions, DNA sequences and maps.

Visitors

Key monthly statistics- 50,000 page views - 6,000 visitors- 8 minutes on site- 50% returning visits

Future developments• Help

• Improved taxonomy handling

• Export of data

Sand box & Information• http://scratchpads.eu

• http://sandbox.scratchpads.eu