emonocot plenary 09/2011
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The eMonocot Scratchpads profile
Ed Baker
Natural History Museum
What are Scratchpads?
Your data1
“Published” & reviewedon your site
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tagged
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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
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