2007.Smith Scratchpads Edit

Slide 1: Scratchpads - a space for your data on the web Vincent S. Smith with Dave Roberts, Mauro Gonzalez, & Simon Rycroft

Slide 2: The problem How to manage, share & integrate digital information… • Many data providers - Each with their own user community • Information heterogeneous - Often specific to each community • Resource are limited - Solutions must scale to different communities • Technical ability of these communities is limited - Solutions must be easy to use

Slide 3: The goal What do you want to achieve with your digital information… • Managing: somewhere to… - Store your data - Structure to your data (helps integration) - Customized to your data and needs • Integrating: mixing data adds value because… - Provides broader context for your specialized work - Facilitates queries - Many levels of integration with different costs & benefits • Sharing: demonstrates your value because… - Makes you visible - Allows others to use your data - Facilitates collaboration …different users have different priorities

Slide 4: The solution No one solution but… use the web! • Generalized Content Management Systems (CMS) - Easy to set up and use (no expert help) - Quick to populate with your data (you can do this) - Low level data integration - most content unstructured • Taxonomic Content Management Systems (TCMS) - (Very) hard to set up and use (need expert help) - (Very) difficult to populate (need expert help) - Facilitates high levels of data integration • Natural Language Processing (NLP) - You don’t use this - we do - Makes digital content machine readable to facilitate integration - Rather “experimental” for biosystematic data

Slide 5: The solution No one solution but… use the web! • Generalized Content Management Systems (CMS) - Easy to set up and use (no expert help) - Quick to populate with your data (you can do this) - Low level data integration - most content unstructured • Taxonomic Content Management Systems (TCMS) - (Very) hard to set up and use (need expert help) - (Very) difficult to populate (need expert help) - Facilitates high levels of data integration • Natural Language Processing (NLP) - You don’t use this - we do - Makes digital content machine readable to facilitate integration - Rather “experimental” for biosystematic data http://vsmith.info/EDIT

Slide 6: What is a Content Management System? Like online systems for booking travel tickets - but more fun!

Slide 7: What is a Content Management System? More like mySpace, or Wikipedia or flickr - but for taxonomists Drupal CMS http://drupal.org/

Slide 8: What is a Content Management System? More like mySpace, or Wikipedia or flickr - but for taxonomists Drupal CMS Complex Database http://drupal.org/ mounted on the web

Slide 9: What is a Content Management System? More like mySpace, or Wikipedia or flickr - but for taxonomists Drupal CMS Complex Database Customize look and http://drupal.org/ mounted on the web functionality

Slide 10: What is a Content Management System? More like mySpace, or Wikipedia or flickr - but for taxonomists Added taxonomic tools (modules) Creating templates (“Scratchpads”) for you & your community to mount your digital information on the web

Slide 11: Scratchpad screenshots African Dung Beetles Fungus Gnats http://www.dungbeetle.co.uk http://www.sciaroidea.info Lice Flies http://phthiraptera.org http://www.milichiidae.info

Slide 12: Creating your Scratchpad How to apply for, customize and use a Scratchpad 1. Fill out an electronic registration 2. Sign the terms & conditions form 3. Wait for your e-mail messages 4. Book an initial appointment with Simon 5. You and your collaborators add content …it is that simple!

Slide 13: Sign-Up process Web form / Choose domain / T & C / Wait for e-mail

Slide 14: HTML Import Import content from an existing site

Slide 15: Bibliography tool Import content from endnote or similar

Slide 16: Bibliography tool Community edit references & serve OAI metadata

Slide 17: Specimen Image database (SID) Image upload & annotation

Slide 18: Online revisions Basic web revisions of taxa

Slide 19: Online gazetteer Checklist of African Dung beetles by country

Slide 20: Logging & Services ClustrMaps

Slide 21: RSS feeds uBio taxon feeds

Slide 22: Roles Categories of user

Slide 23: Modules Scratchpad functionality

Slide 24: Useful links Where to find more information… • Scratchpads - Info: http://www.editwebrevisions.info/scratchpads - Signup: http://www.editwebrevisions.info/application - Help: http://www.editwebrevisions.info/help • EDIT - Workpackage 6: http://www.editwebrevisions.info/ - Workpackage 5: http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/ - EDIT: http://www.e-taxonomy.net/ • Me: http://vsmith.info/