Vincent S. SmithSimon D. Rycroft & Dave Roberts

Scratchpads“redefining publication”

“getting biodiversity online”

What is a Scratchpad?

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A website for you & your community

What is a Scratchpad?

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Fast Intuitive Fit for use

A website for you & your community

What can Scratchpads do?Import, manage, search & browse:

DNA & Phylogenies

Specimens

Literature Images

What can Scratchpads do?Integration & connectivity within & between sites

DNA & Phylogenies

Specimens

Literature ImagesTaxonomy

Current ScratchpadsAntsBeesBeetlesBig-headed fliesBirdsBlackfliesCiliatesCockroachesDragon TreesDung BeetlesFalse ButtonweedFlat wormsFliesForaminiferaFossil InsectsFungus GnatsHolometabolaLeaf-miner FliesLiceLichens of BermudaMalvaceaeMegalastrum fernsMilichiid fliesMosquitoesMossesNannotax fossilsNepticuloid mothsPalmsPearl oystersPolychaete wormsScaleworms

TermitesTriticid grassesWeevilsWood Ferns

Sulawesi FernsStick insects

Sites: 61Users: 665Pages: 130kSince March 2007

Scratchpad applications

4th Edition Howard & Moore, Birds of the world(fact checking, data compilation, 2010, funding)

A multipurpose, flexible technology

eBooks

Scratchpad applications

European Mosquito Bulletin (ISSN 1460-6127), Phasmid Studies (ISSN 0966-0011)(submission, review, & dissemination of articles)

A multipurpose, flexible technology

eJournals

Scratchpad applications

Image galleries

A multipurpose, flexible technology

Nanno fossils, Cockroaches, Stick insects, Flatworms, Grasses, Lichens & many more… (rapid upload, annotation, & display of images)

ZOOTAXAA rapid international journal for animal taxonomistsISSN 1175-5326 (Print Edition) & ISSN 1175-5334 (Online Edition)

Scratchpad applicationsA multipurpose, flexible technology

GBIF, Zootaxa, Threatened Plants of the World (Kew), BarCoVer (DNA Barcoding) & more (space for data collection, services, discussion, & organization)

Societies & Organizations

Scratchpad usageContent & contributors in the first 15 months

Pages:- Across 61 sites- In detail:

• Definitions (41%)• References (26%)• Associations (8.5%)• DNA sequences (6%)

• Images (4.5%)• Maps (2.8%)• Specimens (2.1%)• Others (1.3%)

129,896 pages, 665 contributors

June 24 2008

Scratchpad usage

Contributors:- No more than 10% significantly active- Contributors in more than 30 countries- In detail:

• Europe (55%)• Unknown (29%)• North America (9%)• Asia (3%)

• Australasia (2.5%)• South America (2%)• Russia (0.8%)• Middle East (0.4%) [Jan. 08]

129,896 pages, 665 contributors

June 24 2008

Content & contributors in the first 15 months

Scratchpad visitorsTracking visitors across sites

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

(average per month 08’)

What can Scratchpads do?Instantly build a site & curate the Web

PanelsGoogle scholar, Yahoo! Images, flickr, Wikipedia, BHL, NCBI sequences, GBIF maps (species page templates to integrate user data with quality information on the wider Web)

What can Scratchpads do?Instantly build a site & curate the Web

Google scholar, Yahoo! Images, flickr, Wikipedia, BHL, NCBI sequences, GBIF maps (species page templates to integrate user data with quality information on the wider Web)

Panels

What can Scratchpads do?Instantly build a site & curate the Web

An instant website with 1.1 million species pages that you can curate (http://dev.catlife.myspecies.info)

An example using the catalogue of life classification

Automaticallyclassify content

Drag and dropcuration

Cite a page

Get creditfor your work

http://Scratchpads.euApply for your site now…

http://Scratchpads.euTake a site for a test drive…

http://Scratchpads.euOr just find out more…

To do…- 100+ help videos - Integration with EOL- Interaction between sites- More panels (CBoL, IUCN)- Better taxonomy management- More functions (Ecol. interactions)

Thanks…

Simon Rycroft Ben Scott Dave Roberts

Questions?

Scratchpad managementScalable & sustainable technology

Virtual machine, open-source software, self-archiving, backed-up, multi-site configuration(easy to move & upgrade, secure & reliable, citable, screencasts, low admin., low marginal costs)

Hardware, software & user support

Scratchpad applicationsA multipurpose, flexible technology

Taxon pages with Taxonomy & LiteratureFungus gnats, Mosquito inventory, World Bee checklist, Catalogue of common names…

(rapid upload and management of names, synonyms & bibliographic data)

Scratchpad applicationsA multipurpose, flexible technology

Holometabolous Insects Phylogenetic Database, BarCoVer (DNA Barcoding) & more (import & management of DNA sequences, phylogenies & specimen records)

DNA, Phylogeny & Specimens