Workpackage 6 of EDIT - the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
"Unifying Revisionary Taxonomy on the Web"

This is the Workpackage 6 (WP6) site of EDIT, a European Union funded project to promote and integrate programmes of biological taxonomic research. We aim to helping communities of taxonomists across the globe to put the products of their research on the Web. We are doing this in three ways:

Scratchpads: Providing you and your community a space to work on the Web
Web Revisions: Helping you to meaningfully structure taxonomic data for the Web
Meetings: Bringing researchers together to collaborate on taxonomic research using the Web

WP6 is a collaboration between the Natural History Museum, London, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Free University Berlin, but also involves participants from many other international organisations. We are working closely with the EDIT WP5 team to deliver an Internet Platform for Cybertaxonomy.

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The People

Planned meetings

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:

Objectives

Define and develop the means to provide access to the currently highly fragmented taxonomic information source.
Facilitate and support communities of taxonomic expert.
Define what is needed from the cyber-environment for taxonomic Web content to be delivered.
Assess barriers to implementation.

Description of work

6.0 Integration with other workpackages

Develop further the general project architecture with WP5 and identify responsibilities for elements within it.

Work plan

Terms and Conditions

EDIT Scratchpads: Maintainer Terms and Conditions of Use

This document outlines EDIT’s responsibilities to you and your responsibilities to EDIT through the use of this site. YOU MUST SIGN AND RETURN A COPY OF THIS FORM FOR YOUR SITE REQUEST TO BE PROCESSED. You can sign the form digitally using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 8 or higher) and submit the form by e-mail. This should be sent to Dave Roberts, Natural Histoy Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K or to dmr_AT_nomencurator.org

Scratchpad Signup Form

Wed, 2007-09-12 09:57 — Simon Rycroft

Fill out and submit the electronic form below to initiate your scratchpad application. Once this is completed, you will need to fill in the Terms & Conditions form (* Field Required).

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What is a Scratchpad?

Summary

Scratchpads provide you and your community of researchers a space to work on the web. They are easy to use, adaptable to reflect your needs, and provide you with powerful tools for managing your data. A summery of how they work is illustrated below:

Scratchpad forums

We have two dedicated forums for the scratchpad system where you can document bug reports or problems with your site and a wish list for new features or modules:

Bug reports (list problems with your site)
Wish list (what new features or modules would you like?)

Help building your site

Getting Started

	Signup¹		Overview¹
	How to get a scratchpad		Basic information on your scratchpad

Content

	Simple Page¹		Simple Map¹
	Create a basic page		Create a basic map
	Forum¹		Filestore¹
	Post a new forum topic, or read the forums		Upload a public or private file to the filestore
	Taxonomy²		Specimens²
	Create or upload a taxonomic hierarchy		Create and upload a list or add a single entry
	Literature²		Images²
	Upload a reference list or add a single entry		Upload single or multiple images for annotation.
	Syndication (RSS)²		Custom Data³
	Add a news feed from another website		Create, upload and view custom datasets.
	DNA Sequences²		Genes²
	Upload DNA sequences or add a single entry		Add new genes to label DNA sequences
	Template Views²		Custom Views³
	Integrate data on a new page with one of our templates		Create a custom view of your data by creating a new template

Administration

	Site Information¹		Your Profile¹
	Change the site title, mission statement and logo		Edit your personal information, including where you are
	Users¹		Site Navigation²
	Add, delete and edit registered users.		Customize menus, blocks and all site content
	Feedback²		Visual Theme²
	Moderate comments		Change the visual theme of your site.
	Backup¹		Logs¹
			Who, what and how users access the site.