Roberts, D., Harman, K., Rycroft, S.D. & Smith, V.S. Stockholm Biodiversity Informatics Symposium 2008, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden 1-4 December 2008.
Food Chain and Food Web (Ecosystem) EVS, B. Pharmacy 1st Year, Sem-II
Scratchpads in the Biodiversity Informatics Landscape
1. Scratchpads in the Biodiversity
Informatics Landscape
D. Roberts, K. Harman, S. Rycroft & V. Smith
2. Nomenclators Checklists
Biodiversity
Molecular
Phylogenetic
Index Fungorum PESI: Databases ALA
ZooBank Tree of Life
ERMS
CONABIO
IPNI TreeBase
Fauna Europea NCBI/EMBL/DDBJ CRIA (Brazil)
(Kew/AUS/Harvard) CIPRES
Euro+Med Plantbase CBoL IUCN
ING ORBIS Barcode of Life SEEK
AFD/APC/APUI WORMS Initiative OPAL
NZOR Flora Europea
DAISIE
CoL (Sp2000& ITIS)
iNaturalist
ZooRecord
Molecular
Distribution
Functions
Name Functions
CDM Functions
GNOMA
GNA (NameBank)
(Nomenclatpr
LifeWatch
Architecture)
uBio
GBIF
TDWG
Scan / Mark/up
PLAZI Note:
Inotaxa there are 600 biodiversity
Literature
BHL projects listed by TDWG
Morphological Functions Specimen Access
Functions
eFloras including most of the
projects listed here.
Bibliographic
IPNI Inter-Institutional Institutional
Descriptive / Identification
Google Scholar classification Key2Nature EMu (=MOA)
Synthesis
Connotea
IdentifyLife Recorder
BCI
EoL
ViTaL
BioCASE
Scratchpads
ISI
GeoCASE
CATE
MaNIS
MorphoBank
Wikipedia
Indicated a link yet to be realised A many-to-many relationship
3.
4. EDIT Directions &
European
Distributed
Challenges
Institute of
Taxonomy
1. Collaborative working
2. Publication & Accessibility
3. Adaptability to the internet age
Business as usual
is not an option.
5. Scratchpads: Rationale
Hosted web sites, with
tools for taxonomists
Intended to encourage
community building
Unbranded, to encourage
community identity
Tools to facilitate
structuring of data
6. What is a Scratchpad?
A website for you & your community
1 2 3
Uploaded & Published & reviewed
Your data
tagged on your site
7. Your data
DNA & Phylogenies
Specimens
Descriptions
Images
Literature
8. Taxonomy backbone
• Classification import from uBio
Classification Bank
• Import from tab delimited files in three
different formats
• Makes use of a core feature of Drupal
9. Auto tagging
• Quick and easy
• Data available immediately after upload
• Works with any extra data that may be
added to a taxonomy (vernacular
names, synonymy)
10. Small pieces loosely joined
Has many potential meanings:
• Joining contributors together to form
communities
11. Small pieces loosely joined
Has many potential meanings:
• Joining contributors together to form
communities
• Joining the data together that go towards
forming a Scratchpad
12. Small pieces loosely joined
Has many potential meanings:
• Joining contributors together to form
communities
• Joining the data together that go towards
forming a Scratchpad
• Joining Scratchpad content with the
landscape of biodiversity informatics data
on the web