Simon D. RycroftVincent S. Smith & Dave Roberts

Scratchpads“Biodiversity online”“Redefining publication”

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What is a Scratchpad?

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DNA & Phylogenies Descriptions

Taxonomy backbone• Classification import from uBio

Classification Bank

• Import from tab delimited files in three different formats

• Makes use of a core feature of Drupal

Auto tagging• Quick and easy

• Data available immediately after upload

• Works with any extra data that may be added to a taxonomy (vernacular names, synonymy)

Sucking lice (Anoplura) have around 500 species and represent the smaller of the two traditional suborders of lice. The Anoplura are all blood-feeding ectoparasites of mammals. They can cause localised skin irritations and are vectors of several blood-borne diseases.

Children appear particularly susceptible to attracting lice, possibly due to their fine hair.

At least three species of Anoplura are parasites of humans; the human condition of being infested with sucking lice is called pediculosis. Pediculus humanus is divided into two subspecies, Pediculus humanus humanus, or the body louse, sometimes nicknamed "the seam squirrel" for its habit of laying of eggs in the seams of clothing, and Pediculus humanus capitis, or the head louse. Phthirus pubis (the pubic louse) is the cause of the condition known as crabs.

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On your site

Taxon pages• Content is displayed in “Panels” on “taxon

pages”

• Panels is a plugin feature for Drupal provided by a third party

• Extended with “View controls”

Curate the web• View controls allows a user of a Scratchpad

to effectively curate content from the web.

• Currently have panels for:– Wikipedia

– Flickr

– Yahoo Images

– Biodiversity Heritage Library / Google scholar

– NCBI

– GBIF specimen location maps

Default Panels

Additional features

Additional features• Enterprise backup

– TSM on the Scratchpads’ server

– Intend to include an additional tape archive

Additional features• Enterprise backup

– TSM on the Scratchpads’ server

– Intend to include an additional tape archive

• Additional modules– Nested set query

– Tinytax taxonomy browser

– Autocomplete taxonomic name browsing

Scratchpad statisticsOver100,000 pages, and 650 contributors

• Contributors:– No more than 10% significantly active– Contributors in more than 30 countries

• Pages– Over 60 Sites– Largely made up of definitions and references, but also

includes images, specimens, descriptions, DNA sequences and maps.

Visitors

Key monthly statistics- 50,000 page views - 6,000 visitors- 8 minutes on site- 50% returning visits

Future developments• Help

• Improved taxonomy handling

• Export of data

Sand box & Information• http://scratchpads.eu

• http://sandbox.scratchpads.eu