eMonocot Portal

Ben Clark, Joseph Kelly & Annapaola Santarsiero

eMonocot Objectives

eMonocot aims to help a broad spectrum of users:

• Identify monocots

• Understand their diversity and evolutionary

relationships

• Access a wealth of information about them

And

• Connect taxonomic experts, helping them

publish taxonomic information more efficiently

eMonocot is a distributed system

World Checklist

CATE Araceae PalmWeb GrassBase Dioscoriaceae

Scratchpad

Dracaena & Sansevieria

Scratchpad Other Scratchpads

Dioscoriaceae

Scratchpad

GrassBasePalmWebCATE Araceae

World ChecklistDracaena & Sansevieria

Scratchpad Other Scratchpads

eMonocot is a distributed system

eMonocot

Portal

The eMonocot Portal:

• Is a web-presence for the eMonocot project

• Is a starting point for users

• Integrates all of the content provided by the source systems

• Complements the capabilities of the providing systems

• Specializes in high-performance queries that span source

systems

• Helps curators improve their content

The eMonocot Portal:

http://build.e-monocot.org/mocks

The eMonocot Portal:

http://test.e-monocot.org

Portal Users

Four categories identified:

1. Professional and volunteer taxonomic experts

2. Academic ecologists, evolutionary biologists and researchers

3. Field ecologists, conservation biologists and environmental consultants

4. The general public, school children and students

Portal Users

Four categories identified:

1. Professional and volunteer taxonomic experts

2. Academic ecologists, evolutionary biologists and researchers

3. Field ecologists conservation biologists and environmental consultants

4. The general public, school children and students

What will the portal do?

• Publish attractive, authoritative, informative taxon pages

• Provide identification tools, especially interactive keys

• Have a fast, powerful, intuitive, search and browse functionality

• Provide tools and information to help contributing systems improve their content

•Support ad-hoc analysis and visualization of data about monocots

• Make it easy for users of the portal to provide feedback and contribute to source systems

Taxon Pages

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Identification Tools

• Glossary

• Image Gallery

Search & Browse

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Search & Browse

Support Source Systems

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Support Source Systems

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Ad-hoc analysis & visualization

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Feedback & contribution

• Users will be able to create accounts in the portal

• Portal users will be able to

• Provide feedback to source systems

• Contribute images and data

• Portal will seamlessly pass information to source systems and / or notify

maintainers