1. The eMonocot Scratchpads profile
Ed Baker
Natural History Museum

2. What are Scratchpads?
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Your data Uploaded & “Published” & reviewed
tagged on your site
Fast Intuitive Fit for use

3. Who uses them?
Anybody who wants to share information about biodiversity:
•Taxonomists
•Journals
•Societies
Existing users at Kew:
•Sampled Red List Index for Plants (http://threatenedplants.myspecies.info/)
•CITES Bulbs (citesbulbs.myspecies.info)

4. Aims of eMonocot Scratchpads
Major changes:
•Tailor the Scratchpads to the needs of botanists
•Ready to go (specific goal; minimal customisation)
Keeping:
•Data standards (e.g. SPM, ITIS)
•Some level of flexibility (e.g. for the Carex community)

5. Taxonomy Import
Classification can be imported from WCM so that
Scratchpads and the Portal use same taxonomy

6. Nomenclatural Information
Accommodates modifications made by the Kew Content Team.

7. Nomenclatural Information
The default Scratchpads view is long and messy

8. Nomenclatural Information
eMonocot version is more compact with more information

9. Classification Viewer
Addresses issues raised by Kew regarding:
•Display of synonyms
•Generation of checklists
•New module
•Taxon pages to list
synonyms only
•Taxon pages to list all
children
•New pages showing
complete checklist

10. eMonocot Specifics
Added where data collected does not fit into the existing
standards used by Scratchpads:
•ITIS (Etymology)
•Taxon Description (Cultivation, Pollination, …)
•Additional metadata for images (Photo of habitat, flower, …)

11. Out of the box
Things that can be done in Scratchpads, enabled by default
in eMonocot profile:
•Link an image to a location
•Customised views for Taxon Pages
•Faceted search using Apache Solr

12. Putting it all together

13. The Bigger Picture
WCM
TCS
DarwinCore Archive
eMonocot Portal

14. Scratchpads 2.0
• Improved admin. interface (content, group & user management)
• Guided workflows for data import (e.g. taxonomy, multiple images)
• New species pages
• Integrated mapping (pulling together point, regional & external data)
• Data publication (metadata descriptions formally published)
by early 2012
• Key building (off the character editor)