Irina Brake, Natural History Museum, London

EDIT CDM portals and taxonomic editor –

the Milichiidae portal

• Funded for 5 years by the European Commission (until Feb. 2011)

• A Network of Excellence aimed at encouraging integration of effort in taxonomy across EU institutions.

• Has several ‘Workpackages’– one is building IT tools for taxonomists (WP5)– another is examining how to bring revisionary

taxonomy to the web (WP6)

European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)

Insect exemplar group

Diverse approach to bringing revisionary taxonomy online:• ‘Bottom up’: Scratchpads for free choice of

scope, quantity and presentation of data (WP6)

Insect exemplar group

Diverse approach to bringing revisionary taxonomy online:• ‘Bottom up’: Scratchpads for free choice of

scope, quantity and presentation of data (WP6)• ‘Top down’: Taxonomic editor and data portal for

high quality nomenclatural and taxonomic data (WP5)

Platform Cybergate

http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/platform

Free text areaDetails area

Taxonomic tree area

Free text areaDetails area

Media

Taxonomic tree area

Descriptive data Supplemental data

Diptera portal (http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/dataportal/diptera/)

Classification tree

Search box

Species page

Citations

Links to references

Description

Distribution

Nomenclatural data

Images

Palmweb & Cichorieae portal

http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/cdm-setups

Installation for a taxonomic community

Long term prospects

• ViBRANT (Dec 2010, 3 years) (CDM)• I4Life (~Dec 2010, 3 years) (CDM)• e-monocot (CDM)• e-flora exemplar groups (portals)• EDIT botanic exemplar groups (portals)• BGBM Berlin will maintain CDM library, CDM

store, Taxonomic Editor, portal software & Specimen Explorer beyond EDIT

Thanks to:

the WP5 team:• Anahit Babadshanjan, Walter Berendsohn, Pepe

Ciardelli, Markus Döring, Anton Güntsch, Niels Hoffmann, Andreas Kohlbecker, Katja Luther, Andreas Müller

the WP6 team:• Bill Baker, Ralf Hand, Norbert Kilian, Simon

Mayo, Malcolm Scoble, Eckhard von Raab-Straube, Dave Roberts, Soraya Villalba