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Research post available in concept extraction from scanned literature

Expressions of interest

Start date 1st October 2008

Drupal developer

We are looking for a short term php Drupal developer to help write modules and views as part of a multisite Drupal installation used by research scientists worldwide. We have 30+ community sites used by biologists, and a looking to expand the functionality of these sites with a few additional modules. The post is short term (until the end of March 08) but with longer term prospects, and is available immediately. Salary circa £2.5k pcm.

General

This work package has three key aims, based on the three words in the title.  Most easily explained in reverse order, they are:

Revisions:  to provide the means (tools and resources) to make it easier for taxonomists to produce revisions.  more

Web:  to make those revisionary work accessible through the world wide web.   more

As an aid to help us keep track of the new Scratchpads as they go up, Simon Rycroft has written a little script that dynamically pulls the list from the Edit Web Revisions server. We will try to embed a bit more information (like each site's missions statement) in due course. In the unlikely event that you want to keep track of these sites on your own web page, just paste the following into a webpage:

IPR and the web: challenges for taxonomy

WP6 Workshop: 20 February 2008, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, UK

Workshop Organizers: Dr David Roberts (Natural History Museum), Dr Soraya Villalba (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), Dr William Baker (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), Dr Jane Smith (Natural History Museum), Melinda Trudgen (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), Dr Simon Mayo (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).

Speakers: Dave Roberts, EDIT WP6 leader; Donat Agosti, taxonomist; Willi Egloff, copyright lawyer; Naomi Korn, IP consultant; Vishwas Chavan, GBIF

Title: IPR and the web: challenges for taxonomy

Date: Wednesday 20th February 2008

Location: Museum No. 1, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. How to get there?
(Please note change of venue)

Areas to be explored

The present system allows only a few taxonomy links to be built. I suspect that there is a character limit to the auto-complete box. The auto-complete box is the only practical method to work with a moderately large taxonomy. We really need a better method than this and it adds to the need for the auto-tag function. The keywords field in the publication node is of limited size, so needs to be an expanded text box for monographic publications. Note that the information is there, so highlight all and copy will bring the whole list onto the clipboard.

TDWG has established an online database for tracking meetings and other events within the biodiversity informatics community, together with the existing TDWG databases for biodiversity informatics projects and networks.

The databases are:

• Projects
• Networks
• Events (2008)
• Events (all)