1. Vincent S. Smith with Dave Roberts, Mauro Gonzalez, & Simon Rycroft Scratchpads - a space for your data on the web

2. The problem Technical ability of these communities is limited - Solutions must be easy to use Many data providers - Each with their own user community Information heterogeneous - Often specific to each community Resource are limited - Solutions must scale to different communities How to manage, share & integrate digital information…

3. The goal What do you want to achieve with your digital information… Managing: somewhere to… - Store your data - Structure to your data (helps integration) - Customized to your data and needs Sharing: demonstrates your value because… - Makes you visible - Allows others to use your data - Facilitates collaboration Integrating: mixing data adds value because… - Provides broader context for your specialized work - Facilitates queries - Many levels of integration with different costs & benefits …different users have different priorities

4. The solution No one solution but… use the web! Generalized Content Management Systems (CMS) - Easy to set up and use (no expert help) - Quick to populate with your data (you can do this) - Low level data integration - most content unstructured Natural Language Processing (NLP) - You dont use this - we do - Makes digital content machine readable to facilitate integration - Rather experimental for biosystematic data Taxonomic Content Management Systems (TCMS) - (Very) hard to set up and use (need expert help) - (Very) difficult to populate (need expert help) - Facilitates high levels of data integration

5. The solution No one solution but… use the web! Generalized Content Management Systems (CMS) - Easy to set up and use (no expert help) - Quick to populate with your data (you can do this) - Low level data integration - most content unstructured Natural Language Processing (NLP) - You dont use this - we do - Makes digital content machine readable to facilitate integration - Rather experimental for biosystematic data Taxonomic Content Management Systems (TCMS) - (Very) hard to set up and use (need expert help) - (Very) difficult to populate (need expert help) - Facilitates high levels of data integration http://vsmith.info/EDIT

6. What is a Content Management System? Like online systems for booking travel tickets - but more fun!

7. What is a Content Management System? More like mySpace, or Wikipedia or flickr - but for taxonomists Drupal CMS http://drupal.org/

8. What is a Content Management System? More like mySpace, or Wikipedia or flickr - but for taxonomists Drupal CMS http://drupal.org/ Complex Database mounted on the web

9. What is a Content Management System? More like mySpace, or Wikipedia or flickr - but for taxonomists Drupal CMS http://drupal.org/ Complex Database mounted on the web Customize look and functionality

10. What is a Content Management System? More like mySpace, or Wikipedia or flickr - but for taxonomists Added taxonomic tools (modules) Creating templates (Scratchpads) for you & your community to mount your digital information on the web

11. Scratchpad screenshots Lice http://phthiraptera.org Flies http://www.milichiidae.info Fungus Gnats http://www.sciaroidea.info African Dung Beetles http://www.dungbeetle.co.uk

12. Creating your Scratchpad How to apply for, customize and use a Scratchpad 1. Fill out an electronic registration 4. Book an initial appointment with Simon 3. Wait for your e-mail messages 2.Sign the terms & conditions form …it is that simple! 5. You and your collaborators add content

13. Sign-Up process Web form / Choose domain / T & C / Wait for e-mail

14. HTML Import Import content from an existing site

15. Bibliography tool Import content from endnote or similar

16. Bibliography tool Community edit references & serve OAI metadata

17. Specimen Image database (SID) Image upload & annotation

18. Online revisions Basic web revisions of taxa

19. Online gazetteer Checklist of African Dung beetles by country

20. Logging & Services ClustrMaps

21. RSS feeds uBio taxon feeds

22. Roles Categories of user

23. Modules Scratchpad functionality

24. Useful links Scratchpads - Info: http://www.editwebrevisions.info/scratchpads - Signup: http://www.editwebrevisions.info/application - Help: http://www.editwebrevisions.info/help EDIT - Workpackage 6: http://www.editwebrevisions.info/ - Workpackage 5: http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/ - EDIT: http://www.e-taxonomy.net/ Me: http://vsmith.info/ Where to find more information…