Setting the Scene for ViBRANT – Strategy, Philosophy and Communication

Setting the Scene for ViBRANT Vince Smith Natural History Museum, London [email_address] ViBRANT Virtual Biodiversity

Outline
Brief workpackage overviews
Values / philosophy
Outreach & communication
Twitter
VBRANT.EU forum
Reporting deliverables
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WP1: Project management NHM with HCMR, RBINS, UOXF, UvA, OU, PENSOFT
Strategic Board
Management Committee
Workpackage leaders
Project Partners
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WP3: Training, outreach & community support RBINS with VU, NHM, UNITS
Training (RBINS / NHM)
Training courses & online user support
User study (VU)
Sociological study of user needs & user metrics
Outreach (RBINS / UNITS)
Promotion activities & bug / feature request management
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WP4: Standardisation UvA with JKI, PENSOFT, GBIF, BGBM
Controlled vocabularies / ontologies (GBIF / JKI)
Standardised & internationalised vocabularies
Scratchpad common access point (BGBM)
Search portal across all Scratchpad sites
Standards control (UvA / BGBM / PENSOFT)
API service enhancements & service catalogue
Liaise with LifeWatch (UvA)
Develop the LifeWatch service centre
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WP8: Ecol. & conservation data mobalisation HCMR with MfN, Vizz, PENSOFT, GBIF
Citizen science engagement (HCMR / PENSOFT)
Scratchpad citizen science modules
GBIF data annotation (GBIF)
Tool to annotate observations from GBIF
Visualisation tools (Vizz)
Improved vis. of Scratchpad data plus mobile apps.
Terrestrial data logging (MfN)
Data logging tool
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WP5: Data services UOXF with UPMC, JKI, Vizz, UdIR
Phylogenetic analysis (UOXF)
Tree building service integration
Modeling & biodiversity metrics (UOXF / Vizz)
Niche modeling of spp. distributions
Key construction (UPMC / UdIR)
Integration of Xper2 as a service
Matrix data editing (JKI)
Improving the matrix editor
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WP6: Scholarly publishing PENSOFT with NHM
XML Publication workflows (PENSOFT / NHM)
Scholarly publishing from a Scratchpad to Zookeys & Phytokeys
Biodiversity data publishing (PENSOFT)
“ Publishing data” & pushing this outside ViBRANT
PDF HTML XML SERVICE 17

WP2: Technical architecture NHM with BGBM
Distributed Scratchpad hosting (NHM / BGBM)
Mirroring & failover
Software module integration (NHM)
Develop test & integrate consortium modules
Sustainability plan (NHM)
Costing & modeling ViBRANT sustainability options
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WP7: Biodiversity literature access OU with KIT, PENSOFT, NHM
Community bibliography (OU)
Papers tagged with taxon names
Biodiversity lit. markup (KIT / OU / PENSOFT / NHM)
sub-article level access to taxonomic literature
Literature search (OU)
Datamining biodiversity literature
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Values / Philosophy Why ViBRANT is (a bit) different
Inclusiveness
Open Access
Prioritization
Problem solving
Scalability
Simplicity
Stakeholder ownership
Standardization
Sustainability
Transparency
Agility
Democratisation
Engagement
Equity
Flexibility
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Outreach & communication The need to talk - all feedback is good
“ Build it & they will come ” doesn’t always work
“… the field [of biodiversity informatics] appears to be growing in a void of overarching, motivating questions, effectively making it a set of technologies in search of questions to address.” Peterson et al. The big questions for biodiversity informatics. Systematics and Biodiversity . 2010
We need to promote what we do via:
Help & support systems
Training courses
Sociological research & feedback
Presentations, papers, blogs
Promotional materials
Representation on http://vbrant.eu
Trifold-leaflets for each group of activities
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ViBRANT Trifold Promotional Leaflets Materials needed ASAP 17

Communication - Twitter 140 characters or less
Create an account in your name
“ Tweet” what you are doing
Include @vbrant in your tweet
Include #wp[1-8] for your workpkg.
Tweet often!
Download an app.
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Communication - VBRANT.EU E-Mail integration in the forum
http://vbrant.eu/forum
Each has its own e-mail address
Send via your registered e-mail address
Message attachments also sent, archived & backed up
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Reporting deliverables & milestones Completed via http://vbrant.eu/deadlines
Find your deliverable or milestone
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