1. Scratchpads An online platform for biodiversity data Laurence Livermore Biodiversity Informatics | Department of Life Sciences Natural History Museum London 2015 NFBR and BES Conference A Question of Ecology – Answers from Biological Recording

2. What are Scratchpads? Hosted websites for biodiversity data Virtual research & publication platform Completely open access & open source Modular & flexible Running for over 7 years with 680+ sites and 6,700+ users

3. Regional faunistic and floral treatments Examples of use:

4. Invasive species resources Examples of use:

5. Journals and news groups Examples of use:

6. Dynamic taxon pages using tagged content The main features Support for storing and managing many data types Tools to manage biological classifications Publication module (beta) – formally publish using data in your Scratchpad Extensive tools for importing and exporting data from external services Regional (inc. Vice Counties) and coordinate-based distribution maps

7. Taxon pages Overview of data related to taxon Generated from tagged content The main features

8. Store, manage, export and share data

9. Dynamic Biological Classifications Manually entered or imported Auto generated The main features

10. Distribution maps Google maps based Data layers Occurrence data Distribution data TDWG regions GBIF data The main features

11. Structured data Publish, cite, disseminate & archive data Select, describe & annotate data Publication module Major repositories Publication Module (beta)

12. data mobilisation more on the way… External services Integration

13. Help & Support In-site Support Wiki Training Courses Ambassadors Programme Embedded Issues Queue Sandbox Site http://help.scratchpads.eu

14. Scratchpads strategic steering - Vince Smith, Dimitris Koureas, Simon Rycroft Scratchpads technical development -Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Ed Baker, Alice Heaton, Katherine Bouton, Khalid Almaini Scratchpads outreach -Laurence Livermore, Isa van de Velde & Dimitris Koureas ViBRANT -Vince Smith, Dave Roberts & Lucy Reeve Pensoft - Lyubomir Penev and the Pensoft team Our 6700 users Acknowledgements

15. http://scratchpads.eu