1. Irina Brake, Natural History Museum, London EDIT CDM portals and taxonomic editor – the Milichiidae portal

2. Funded for 5 years by the European Commission (until Feb. 2011) A Network of Excellence aimed at encouraging integration of effort in taxonomy across EU institutions. Has several ‘Workpackages’ – one is building IT tools for taxonomists (WP5) – another is examining how to bring revisionary taxonomy to the web (WP6) European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)

3. Insect exemplar group Diverse approach to bringing revisionary taxonomy online: ‘Bottom up’: Scratchpads for free choice of scope, quantity and presentation of data (WP6)

4. Insect exemplar group Diverse approach to bringing revisionary taxonomy online: ‘Bottom up’: Scratchpads for free choice of scope, quantity and presentation of data (WP6) ‘Top down’: Taxonomic editor and data portal for high quality nomenclatural and taxonomic data (WP5)

5. Platform Cybergate http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/platform

6. Free text area Details area Taxonomic tree area

8. Free text area Details area Media Taxonomic tree area Descriptive data Supplemental data

12. Diptera portal (http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/dataportal/diptera/) Classification tree Search box Species page Citations Links to references

13. Description Distribution

14. Nomenclatural data

15. Images

17. Palmweb & Cichorieae portal

18. http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/cdm-setups

19. Installation for a taxonomic community

20. Long term prospects ViBRANT (Dec 2010, 3 years) (CDM) I4Life (~Dec 2010, 3 years) (CDM) e-monocot (CDM) e-flora exemplar groups (portals) EDIT botanic exemplar groups (portals) BGBM Berlin will maintain CDM library, CDM store, Taxonomic Editor, portal software & Specimen Explorer beyond EDIT

21. Thanks to: the WP5 team: Anahit Babadshanjan, Walter Berendsohn, Pepe Ciardelli, Markus Döring, Anton Güntsch, Niels Hoffmann, Andreas Kohlbecker, Katja Luther, Andreas Müller the WP6 team: Bill Baker, Ralf Hand, Norbert Kilian, Simon Mayo, Malcolm Scoble, Eckhard von Raab- Straube, Dave Roberts, Soraya Villalba