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Small pieces loosely joined: a unified theory of biodiversity for the web.
The document discusses Scratchpads, a website platform for taxonomic research. Scratchpads allow individual researchers and communities to integrate their data, such as specimens, publications, images and phylogenies. Data is tagged and can be displayed in customizable panels on dynamically generated pages. This brings together the fragmented work of individual taxonomists ("micro taxonomy") while also integrating with larger biodiversity databases ("macro taxonomy"). The document provides examples of how Scratchpads have been used and their potential to further unify biodiversity research across different areas of study and online platforms.
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