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Vincent S. Smith Dave Roberts & Simon Rycroft Small pieces loosely joined Getting louse research on the Web
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Phthiraptera.org Pros High quality Bespoke Digital hub Cons 1 Person Limited updates Taxonomy focus No digital services No ownership Slow to build http://phthiraptera.org
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A common experience Examples from the NHM, London Spanish Sandflies Lepidoptera Solanaceae Chalcid Wasps British Fleas Martian Meteorites Loch Ness Worms Bumble bees
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Explosion of Web (2.0) tools Putting you in control
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What is a Scratchpad? A website for you & your community Your data 1 Published & reviewed on your site 3 Uploaded & tagged 2
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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
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http://scratchpads.eu Scratchpads A multi-site implementation of Drupal
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Scratchpad Application Form Free to any individual or community
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Flexible Template Site With easy navigation
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An ecosystem of communities Sites: 150+ Users: 2000+ Pages: 266k Circa 2 new sites/wk. March 2007
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Phthiraptera.org Reborn as a Scratchpad http://phthiraptera.myspecies.info
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Phthiraptera.org Your content available to edit by you… e.g. Your research profile
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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
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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
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THIS SITE NEEDS YOU! Louse Scratchpad Workshop Tuesday 12-13.00, June 15th To cover… An overview of whats possible Accounts & logging in Taxonomy Louse - host associations Bibliographies E-mail forums Phylogenies No time for… Private groups Character projects Publications Many more things…
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E uropean D istributed I nstitute of T axonomy EDIT - http://www.e-taxonomy.eu/ Network of 27 partners 12M Euros Feb. 2006 - Feb. 2011 to integrate taxonomic research and improve the production of knowledge
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ViBRANT INFRA-2010-1.2.3 (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
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BMC Bioinformatics BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 (Suppl 14) S6doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S6 Published: 10 November 2009
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