ScratchpadsAn online platform for biodiversity data

Laurence LivermoreBiodiversity Informatics | Department of Life Sciences

Natural History Museum London

2015 NFBR and BES ConferenceA Question of Ecology – Answers from Biological Recording

What are Scratchpads?

Hosted websites for biodiversity data

Virtual research & publication platform

Completely open access & open source

Modular & flexible

Running for over 7 years with 680+ sites and 6,700+

users

Regional faunistic and floral treatments

Examples of use:

Invasive species resources

Examples of use:

Journals and news groups

Examples of use:

Dynamic taxon pages using tagged content

The main features

Support for storing and managing many data types

Tools to manage biological classifications

Publication module (beta) – formally publish using data in your Scratchpad

Extensive tools for importing and exporting data from external services

Regional (inc. Vice Counties) and coordinate-based distribution maps

Taxon pages

Overview of data related to taxon

Generated from tagged content

The main features

Store, manage, export and share data

Dynamic Biological Classifications

Manually entered or imported

Auto generated

The main features

Distribution maps

Google maps based

Data layers

Occurrence data

Distribution dataTDWG regions

GBIF data

The main features

Structured data

Publish, cite,disseminate & archive data

Select, describe &

annotate dataPublication module

Major repositories

Publication Module (beta)

data

mobilisation

more on the way…

External services Integration

Help & Support

• In-site Support

• Wiki

• Training Courses

• Ambassadors Programme

• Embedded Issues Queue

• Sandbox Site

http://help.scratchpads.eu

Scratchpads strategic steering- Vince Smith, Dimitris Koureas, Simon Rycroft

Scratchpads technical development- Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Ed Baker, Alice Heaton, Katherine Bouton, Khalid Almaini

Scratchpads outreach- Laurence Livermore, Isa van de Velde & Dimitris Koureas

ViBRANT- Vince Smith, Dave Roberts & Lucy Reeve

Pensoft- Lyubomir Penev and the Pensoft team

Our 6700 users

Acknowledgements

http://scratchpads.eu