1. Vincent S. Smith Dave Roberts & Simon Rycroft Small pieces loosely joined Getting louse research on the Web

2. Phthiraptera.org Pros High quality Bespoke Digital hub Cons 1 Person Limited updates Taxonomy focus No digital services No ownership Slow to build http://phthiraptera.org

3. A common experience Examples from the NHM, London Spanish Sandflies Lepidoptera Solanaceae Chalcid Wasps British Fleas Martian Meteorites Loch Ness Worms Bumble bees

4. Explosion of Web (2.0) tools Putting you in control

5. What is a Scratchpad? A website for you & your community Your data 1 Published & reviewed on your site 3 Uploaded & tagged 2

6. Your data 1 Published & reviewed on your site 3 Uploaded & tagged 2 FastIntuitiveFit for use What is a Scratchpad? A website for you & your community

7. http://scratchpads.eu Scratchpads A multi-site implementation of Drupal

8. Scratchpad Application Form Free to any individual or community

9. Flexible Template Site With easy navigation

10. An ecosystem of communities Sites: 150+ Users: 2000+ Pages: 266k Circa 2 new sites/wk. March 2007

12. Phthiraptera.org Reborn as a Scratchpad http://phthiraptera.myspecies.info

13. Phthiraptera.org Your content available to edit by you… e.g. Your research profile

14. Content Summary Phthiraptera.org Data so far… Phthirapterists (296) Lice (8,040) Birds (5,640) Mammals (6,561) Louse-host associations (12,472) Bibliographic data (9,759) Institutional collections (62) Data to follow… Images (7,650, 440 taxa) PDF attachments (4,084) Phylogenies (30+) Will get prettier

15. The future Phthiraptera.org Thats all folks… Its a community based site Needs you to submit data Needs a senior editor Its your site, not mine

16. THIS SITE NEEDS YOU! Louse Scratchpad Workshop Tuesday 12-13.00, June 15th To cover… An overview of whats possible Accounts & logging in Taxonomy Louse - host associations Bibliographies E-mail forums Phylogenies No time for… Private groups Character projects Publications Many more things…

17. E uropean D istributed I nstitute of T axonomy EDIT - http://www.e-taxonomy.eu/ Network of 27 partners 12M Euros Feb. 2006 - Feb. 2011 to integrate taxonomic research and improve the production of knowledge

18. ViBRANT INFRA-2010-1.2.3 (VRC) 17 Partners, 9 countries 4.75M Distribute hosting infrastructure Web services on major data types Registry of sites and data services Common data portal New services (keys / phylog.) Vocab. / ontology site (GBIF) User support Sociological research Formal publishing

19. BMC Bioinformatics BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 (Suppl 14) S6doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S6 Published: 10 November 2009

20. Questions?