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Scripting Life:ViBRANT’s kick-off meeting

Vince SmithNatural History Museum, London

vince@vsmith.info

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• Hosted websites for taxonomists• Research & publication platform • Modular (Drupal) & flexible • Supports the taxonomic workflow• 2,500 users (unpaid) from 2007• Ecosystem of communities (~200)

ViBRANT’s foundationhttp://scratchpads.eu

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What is ViBRANT?

• A Virtual Research Environment (Scratchpads) where users can safely store, share and manage data.

• Analytical services for users to build identification keys and phylogenetic trees.• A publication platform for users to automatically compile manuscripts from their

research database.• A portal for users to centrally access publicly accessible biodiversity research

information and literature.• Training, support & sociological study, helping research communities to use

these tools and services.• A standards compliant technical architecture that can be sustained by

biodiversity research community.

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ViBRANT is about creating the best Virtual ResearchEnvironment for the taxonomic & systematic research community

In sum…

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ViBRANT logistics• Started December 2010 (36 months)• Project website (http://vbrant.eu)• Virtual Research Communities, CP-CSA, EU FP7• €6.2M Euros (EU Contribution €4.75M)• 17 Partners in 9 countries, 603 person months

Collaboration (not just EU)…• ESFRI Projects: LifeWatch, ELIXIR & EMBRC• GBIF - controlled vocabularies, nodes & observational data recording• PESI, 4D4Life & related EU projects• Encyclopedia of Life, Barcode of Life & Biodiversity Heritage Library• South African National Biodiversity Institute & Atlas of living Australia

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Scripting Life

20-21 January, 2011Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Paris, France

http://vbrant.eu/scripting-life

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Scripting Life goals

Primary• Introductions • Contributions & roles (ViBRANT is complex)• Highlight admin. & legal obligations• Medium term-planning

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Background considerations• Our audiences (old & new) - VIBRANT is about engagement• Functional overlaps (internally & externally)• Scheduling, dependencies, status reporting, risks• Processes & standards of delivery• External engagement & opportunities• Most of ViBRANT is NOT research

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59 Presentations48 on day-two!

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Twitter @vbrant140 characters or less

• “Tweet” what you are doing • #scriptlife meeting hashtag• Include @vbrant in your tweet• Include #wp[1-8] for your workpkg. • Download an app.

http://twitter.com/vbrant

http://vbrant.eu/content/using-twitter

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Memorable Moments

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