Scripting Life: ViBRANT's Kickoff meeting

Scripting Life: ViBRANT’s kick-off meeting Vince Smith Natural History Museum, London [email_address] ViBRANT Virtual Biodiversity

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 foundation http://scratchpads.eu 10

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.
10 ViBRANT is about creating the best Virtual Research Environment for the taxonomic & systematic research community In sum… http://vbrant.eu

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
of 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, 2011 Grande Galerie de l'Evolution , Paris, France http://vbrant.eu/scripting-life 10

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