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
Free text area Details area Taxonomic tree area
Free text area Details area Media Taxonomic tree area Descriptive data Supplemental data
Diptera portal ( Classification tree Search box Species page Citations Links to references
Description Distribution
Nomenclatural data
Images
Palmweb & Cichorieae portal
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