Scratchpads and the new Biodiversity Data Journal

Biodiversity Data Publishing made… easier

Dimitris KoureasNatural History Museum London

Publications based on countless

specimens, images, maps, keys and datasets

Current taxonomic data production

Figure from Costello M.J et al, 2013. doi: 10.1126/science.1230318

On the other hand:

Estimates of

7.5 million species

still undescribed1

1How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean? Mora C et al. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127

Data curation

Data Collection &Generation

Data Analysis

My data is in Scratchpads

The data cycle

Now what? / So what?

Data curation

Data Publication

Data Collection &Generation

seamless

data workflow

Data Analysis

The data cycle

Structured data

Publish, cite,disseminate & archive data

Select, describe & annotate

dataPublication module

Major repositories

Biodiversity Data Journal

• New, Open Access data journal• Launches in 2013• Supports the full life cycle of a

manuscript• Writing, submission, review, publication

& dissemination• Structured, reusable, standardized data• Linked to Scratchpads via Publication

Module

http://biodiversitydatajournal.com/

What will BDJ publish?

• Single taxon treatments and nomenclatural acts

• Local or regional checklists

• Sampling reports and occasional inventories

• Habitat-based checklists and inventories

• Ecological and biological observations

• Single identification keys

• Biodiversity-related databases, including genomic, ecological

and environmental data (data papers)

• Biodiversity-related software tools & software documentation

Scratchpads templates for publishing...• Taxon treatments• Nomenclatural acts • Checklists / inventories• Identification keys and trees• Metadata descriptions of databases• Descriptions of software tools

Scratchpads Publication Module

Easy & intuitive• Draws on data from your site• Pre-submission validation• Submitted as structured XML• No reformatting

• Work on multiple manuscripts

• Invite different people to work on different manuscripts

• Manage permissions

Assembling a manuscript

Author names and affiliations

Data included in manuscript in a structured, annotated format

Assembling a manuscript

Taxon descriptions

Assembling a manuscript

Specimen data

Assembling a manuscript

References

Easily cite from your Scratchpad bibliography to compile a list of references

Assembling a manuscript

Figures

Assembling a manuscript

Tables

Assembling a manuscript

Texts

Assembling a manuscript

XMLFigures and Tables

Keys

References

Text

The publication module

Author names and affiliations

Taxon descriptions

Specimen data

Supplementary files

Structured Data from your Scratchpad

Previewing your manuscript

Post submission workflow

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and more . . .

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The Future…

Later in 2013 Pensoft and Scratchpads will support publication in other journals:

Thank you…

Data curation

Data Publication

Data Collection &Generation

Data Analysis