emonocot plenary 09/2011

The eMonocot Scratchpads profile

Ed Baker

Natural History Museum

What are Scratchpads?

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Fast Intuitive Fit for use

Who uses them?Anybody who wants to share information about biodiversity:•Taxonomists•Journals•Societies

Existing users at Kew:•Sampled Red List Index for Plants (http://threatenedplants.myspecies.info/)

•CITES Bulbs (citesbulbs.myspecies.info)

Aims of eMonocot ScratchpadsMajor changes:•Tailor the Scratchpads to the needs of botanists•Ready to go (specific goal; minimal customisation)

Keeping:•Data standards (e.g. SPM, ITIS)•Some level of flexibility (e.g. for the Carex community)

Classification can be imported from WCM so thatScratchpads and the Portal use same taxonomy

Taxonomy Import

Accommodates modifications made by the Kew Content Team.

Nomenclatural Information

The default Scratchpads view is long and messy

Nomenclatural Information

eMonocot version is more compact with more information

Nomenclatural Information

Addresses issues raised by Kew regarding:•Display of synonyms•Generation of checklists

Classification Viewer

•New module

•Taxon pages to listsynonyms only

•Taxon pages to list allchildren

•New pages showingcomplete checklist

Added where data collected does not fit into the existingstandards used by Scratchpads:

•ITIS (Etymology)

•Taxon Description (Cultivation, Pollination, …)

•Additional metadata for images (Photo of habitat, flower, …)

eMonocot Specifics

Things that can be done in Scratchpads, enabled by defaultin eMonocot profile:

•Link an image to a location

•Customised views for Taxon Pages

•Faceted search using Apache Solr

Out of the box

Putting it all together

The Bigger Picture

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Scratchpads 2.0

• Improved admin. interface (content, group & user management)

• Guided workflows for data import (e.g. taxonomy, multiple images)

• New species pages• Integrated mapping (pulling together point, regional & external data)

• Data publication (metadata descriptions formally published)

• Key building (off the character editor)

by early 2012