The document discusses taxonomy and Scratchpads, a multi-host Drupal site customized for taxonomists. Scratchpads allows for taxonomic communities to apply for their own site, with over 65 sites, 750 users, and 130,000 nodes created. Key features include finding taxonomic relationships through tagging and metadata, and importing and exporting taxonomy data through various standards like CSV and XML feeds.

1. Taxonomy
Scratchpads
Vincent Smith Simon Rycroft

2. Biological taxonomy
Findability, relationships (ontology) tagging
• Scale
• Metadata

3. Scratchpads
http://scratchpads.eu/
• Multi-host Drupal (5) site
• Drupal customized for taxonomists
• Communities apply for a site
• 65+ sites, 750+ users, 130k nodes
• Taxonomy central to many features