Vincent S. Smith Dave Roberts & Simon Rycroft Small pieces loosely joined Getting louse research on the Web
Phthiraptera.org Pros High quality Bespoke Digital hub Cons 1 Person Limited updates Taxonomy focus No digital services No ownership Slow to build
A common experience Examples from the NHM, London Spanish Sandflies Lepidoptera Solanaceae Chalcid Wasps British Fleas Martian Meteorites Loch Ness Worms Bumble bees
Explosion of Web (2.0) tools Putting you in control
What is a Scratchpad? A website for you & your community Your data 1 Published & reviewed on your site 3 Uploaded & tagged 2
Your data 1 Published & reviewed on your site 3 Uploaded & tagged 2 FastIntuitiveFit for use What is a Scratchpad? A website for you & your community
Scratchpads A multi-site implementation of Drupal
Scratchpad Application Form Free to any individual or community
Flexible Template Site With easy navigation
An ecosystem of communities Sites: 150+ Users: Pages: 266k Circa 2 new sites/wk. March 2007
Phthiraptera.org Reborn as a Scratchpad
Phthiraptera.org Your content available to edit by you… e.g. Your research profile
Content Summary Phthiraptera.org Data so far… Phthirapterists (296) Lice (8,040) Birds (5,640) Mammals (6,561) Louse-host associations (12,472) Bibliographic data (9,759) Institutional collections (62) Data to follow… Images (7,650, 440 taxa) PDF attachments (4,084) Phylogenies (30+) Will get prettier
The future Phthiraptera.org Thats all folks… Its a community based site Needs you to submit data Needs a senior editor Its your site, not mine
THIS SITE NEEDS YOU! Louse Scratchpad Workshop Tuesday , June 15th To cover… An overview of whats possible Accounts & logging in Taxonomy Louse - host associations Bibliographies forums Phylogenies No time for… Private groups Character projects Publications Many more things…
E uropean D istributed I nstitute of T axonomy EDIT - Network of 27 partners 12M Euros Feb Feb to integrate taxonomic research and improve the production of knowledge
ViBRANT INFRA (VRC) 17 Partners, 9 countries 4.75M Distribute hosting infrastructure Web services on major data types Registry of sites and data services Common data portal New services (keys / phylog.) Vocab. / ontology site (GBIF) User support Sociological research Formal publishing
BMC Bioinformatics BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 (Suppl 14) S6doi: / S14-S6 Published: 10 November 2009
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