emonocot portal
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eMonocot Portal
Ben Clark, Joseph Kelly & Annapaola Santarsiero
eMonocot Objectives
eMonocot aims to help a broad spectrum of users:
• Identify monocots
• Understand their diversity and evolutionary
relationships
• Access a wealth of information about them
And
• Connect taxonomic experts, helping them
publish taxonomic information more efficiently
eMonocot is a distributed system
World Checklist
CATE Araceae PalmWeb GrassBase Dioscoriaceae
Scratchpad
Dracaena & Sansevieria
Scratchpad Other Scratchpads
Dioscoriaceae
Scratchpad
GrassBasePalmWebCATE Araceae
World ChecklistDracaena & Sansevieria
Scratchpad Other Scratchpads
eMonocot is a distributed system
eMonocot
Portal
The eMonocot Portal:
• Is a web-presence for the eMonocot project
• Is a starting point for users
• Integrates all of the content provided by the source systems
• Complements the capabilities of the providing systems
• Specializes in high-performance queries that span source
systems
• Helps curators improve their content
The eMonocot Portal:
http://build.e-monocot.org/mocks
The eMonocot Portal:
http://test.e-monocot.org
Portal Users
Four categories identified:
1. Professional and volunteer taxonomic experts
2. Academic ecologists, evolutionary biologists and researchers
3. Field ecologists, conservation biologists and environmental consultants
4. The general public, school children and students
Portal Users
Four categories identified:
1. Professional and volunteer taxonomic experts
2. Academic ecologists, evolutionary biologists and researchers
3. Field ecologists conservation biologists and environmental consultants
4. The general public, school children and students
What will the portal do?
• Publish attractive, authoritative, informative taxon pages
• Provide identification tools, especially interactive keys
• Have a fast, powerful, intuitive, search and browse functionality
• Provide tools and information to help contributing systems improve their content
•Support ad-hoc analysis and visualization of data about monocots
• Make it easy for users of the portal to provide feedback and contribute to source systems
Taxon Pages
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Identification Tools
• Glossary
• Image Gallery
Search & Browse
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Search & Browse
Support Source Systems
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Support Source Systems
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Ad-hoc analysis & visualization
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Feedback & contribution
• Users will be able to create accounts in the portal
• Portal users will be able to
• Provide feedback to source systems
• Contribute images and data
• Portal will seamlessly pass information to source systems and / or notify
maintainers
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