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Koureas D.N., Van deVelde I., Roberts D.
An Introduction to Scratchpads:
Making your data work for you
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keep the discussion going
@vbrant @scratchpads & @dimitriskoureas
at
#piblei
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but
what are
the
Scratchpads?
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What are Scratchpads?
Hosted websites for biodiversity data
Virtual research & publication platform
Completely open access & open source
Modular & flexible
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Facilitate the development of online research communities
Enable users in sharing and interlinking their data
Provide a standardized environment of entering and curating data
Accelerate publication process & dissemination of research products
What are Scratchpads?
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A Scratchpad is a website that holds data for you and your community
The Scratchpads concept
Your data External data & services
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What Scratchpads are not!
A single biodiversity database
Restricted thematically, geographically or taxonomically
A tool just for taxonomists
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Examples of usage:
Taxa(Classifications, taxon profiles, specimens, literature, images, maps, phenotypic,
genotypic & morphometric datasets, keys, phylogenies)
ProjectsConservation Regions Societies
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65000 unique visitors/month
Per month unique visitors to Scratchpads sites
464 Scratchpads Communities
by 6,407 active registered users
covering 52,661 taxa
in 559,488 pages.
How are Scratchpads doing?
In total more than
1,200,000 visitors
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How are Scratchpads funded?
2007 2011 2014
ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity Research
&
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Cyndy Parr, Rob Guralnick, Nico Cellinese and Rod Page.
TREE. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2011.11.001
This requires data, information & knowledge to be…
• Digital Not printed paper
• Openly accessible Not behind barriers
• Linked-up Not in silos
“Link together evolutionary data… by developing analytical tools and proper documentation and then use this framework to conduct comparative analyses, studies of evolutionary process and biodiversity analyses”
Our informatics grand challenge…
Why Scratchpads?
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• 15-20k new spp. described annually (2M total)1
• 30k nomenclatural acts (12M total) 1
• 20k phylogenies (750k total)2
• 31k taxa sequenced (360k taxa total)3
• 800k BioMed papers (40M total pp. of taxonomy) 4
• Countless specimens, images, maps, keys and datasets
Our current taxonomic data production
Typically generated by small communities for “local” research projects
Figures from 1) Zhang, Zootaxa 2011 4, 1-4; 2) Web-of-Science; 3) Genbank and 4) PubMed.
Why Scratchpads?
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Vast amounts of unpublished taxonomic “knowledge”
Or
Published knowledge cannot easily be mobilised
Why Scratchpads?
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This leads to:
A complex, fragmented & hard to navigate
landscape
Dispersed data sources
Difficulties for collecting information for research
Why Scratchpads?
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Science is global
It needs global standards
Global workflows
Cooperation of large institutes and
organisations
Why Scratchpads?
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ScratchpadsVirtual Research Environments
Making taxonomy digital, open & linked
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the main
features
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Classification term oriented system
Biologicalclassifications
Non-biologicalclassifications
Taxonomies Hierarchical controlled vocabularies
The main features
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Dynamic Biological Classifications
Manually entered or imported
Auto generated
Nomenclatural annotation
The main features
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Taxon pages
Overview of data related to taxon
Generated from tagged content
The main features
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Bibliography management
Faceted browsing
An inbuilt Bibliography manager
Taxon tagging and free keywords
Import from and export to all major formats
The main features
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Specimen/Observation data
Linked to images and georeferenced
Annotated full specimen/observation records
The main features
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Distribution maps
Google maps based
Data layers
Occurrence data
Distribution dataTDWG regions
GBIF data
The main features
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Example regional distributionThe main features
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Character matrices – Key construction
Quantitative or qualitative characters
Auto generation of keys
Taxon based matrices [Specimens based character matrices]
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Media handling
Bulk upload
Metadata (incl. EXIF)
Media galleries
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Working groups
Forums
Blog entries
Webforms
Newsletters
RSS syndication
Inbuilt comments
Enhanced communication tools
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Generation of custom pages
Tagged or not
External RSS
Twitter feeds
Media files
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other
features
Multilanguage support (Localization, Internationalization)
OBOE REST service
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other
features
SEO optimization & Google Analytics
Interface customization
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Built to interact
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Publishing tool
ID Keypreview
Multi-figure plates Plate layout
ID Keybuilder
Manuscript preview
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Scratchpads are an integrated system to
Enter, Curate, Mark-up, Link and Publish data
taxonomic workflowin a single virtual environment
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Help & Support
• In-site Support- One click help within your site
• Wiki- Training manuals, videos & glossary
• Training Courses (12 in 2012)- UK (6), Sweden, (2) Greece (1),
Bulgaria (1), South Africa (1), Brazil (1)
• Ambassadors Programme- Enthusiastic experienced users- Local support
• Embedded Issues Queue- Bug reports- Feature requests
• Sandbox Site- http://sandbox.scratchpad.eu
http://help.scratchpad.eu
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Scratchpad technical development- Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Ed Baker, Alice Heaton & Katherine Bouton
Scratchpad outreach- Isa van deVelde, Laurence Livermore & Dimitris Koureas
E-Monocot - Paul Wilkin & the Kew team, Charles Godfray & the Oxford team
ViBRANT- Vince Smith, Dave Roberts & Lucy Reeve
Our 7,000+ users
Acknowledgements
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and now…
hands-on time
http://pro-ibioXX.taxon.name
http://help.scratchpads.eu/w/Introduction_to_basic_Scratchpad_training_course
your training site:
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