An introduction to ViBRANT: Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy
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Given at an Entomology departmental meeting, at the Natural History Museum, London, UK. July 9th, 2010.
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An introduction to ViBRANT: Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy
- 1. 1 of 14 Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy ViBRANT INFRA-2010-1.2.3: Virtual Research Communities http://vbrant.eu Currently in “negotiation” Starts 1 Dec. 2010 FP7 - INFRASTRUCTURES - 2010 - 2 CCPCSA
- 5. Practical Objectives - part 2 5 of 14 Addressing the challenges of biodiversity informatics “… 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, Syst. & Biodiv. 2010
- 7. Macro Structure - Delivery Components 7 of 14 Networking (WP3, 4, & 8) Service (WP5 & 6) Research (WP2 & 7)
- 19. Practical Value Added - an example “ get published through your Scratchpad” Write the title & abstract
- 20. Practical Value Added - an example “ get published through your Scratchpad” Define who you want to see / coauthor the manuscript
- 21. Practical Value Added - an example “ get published through your Scratchpad” Define the structure of the paper
- 22. Practical Value Added - an example drag-&-drop the content
- 23. Practical Value Added - an example Preview the manuscript
- 24. Practical Value Added - an example Submit the manuscript for review (sent as XML)
- 25. Practical Value Added - an example Get published after peer review PDF HTML XML
- 26. Practical Value Added - an example Zookeys special issue
- 27. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- In negotiation (administrative dotting on ‘I’s and crossing of ‘t’s). Funded from FP7 Infratructures. Starts 1 Dec. 2010.
- Builds on the Scratchpad project, funded under EDIT.
- Overall objectives (written in EU-speak).
- Objectives translated into English. 2 parts. Part 1 - Address the problems of taxonomy.
- Part 2. Address the problems of biodiversity informatics. This is a your field, growing up in a vacume, isolated from practical scientific questions. Lots of Whizz-bang tools, but often with little practical use. ViBRANT’S goal is to bridge the gap between the informatics and the user community. Its about making technology usable and useful for taxonomists in the first instance, and secondly to make taxonomic data more useful and usable.
- These are the people involved. As far-flung as the Reunion Islands.
- What we are going to do (as a Chromosome) I’ll break this down later). Two key points. One - all roads lead to the Scratchpads to deliver and “integrated user experience” - a one stop shop for all the products of ViBRANT. Two - work is broken down into a triad of components - networking, service and research.
- Here is the breakdown in a little more details. Activities are split into workpackages divided up under the banner of networking, service and research. Funds are relatively evenly split between these activities. In practical terms let me go through some of the highlights of each workpackage…
- WP3. Training courses, online support, FAQ’s, engagiung with user communities; A new feedback mechanism (tightly integrated into the system - this will replace Uservoice).; Sociological user study, to differentiate what users tell us they are doing, from what they are actually doing.