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Page 1: eMonocot Plenary 09/2011

The eMonocot Scratchpads profile

Ed Baker

Natural History Museum

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What are Scratchpads?

Your data1

“Published” & reviewedon your site

3Uploaded &

tagged

2

Fast Intuitive Fit for use

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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)

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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)

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

Taxonomy Import

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Accommodates modifications made by the Kew Content Team.

Nomenclatural Information

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The default Scratchpads view is long and messy

Nomenclatural Information

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eMonocot version is more compact with more information

Nomenclatural Information

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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

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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

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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

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Putting it all together

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The Bigger Picture

eMonocot PortalDarwinCore Archive

WCM

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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

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