Vincent S. Smith

Lice on the WebA workshop on the newPhthiraptera website

Agenda

Background• What the current site has• What the new site can do• What the new site can’t do

Practicalities• Logging in• Bibliography• Profiles• Taxonomy• Louse-host associations

Future• New content areas• A “contributor” community• A new senior editor ?

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+)

Current Contributors

Irina Brake

Olivia Taylor

Fran Curtis

• Focus on literature (reprints)• Scanning references• Updating the bibliography

Future Contributors

You!

ScratchpadFunctionality

Summary

TaxonomyTaxonomy import, management and

navigation

• Browsable hierarchy• Valid and invalid names*• Lice, birds & mammals• Opens dynamic taxon pages

Dynamically built species pages

Integrating data & “publishing” in a Scratchpad

Taxon Pages

Including 3rd party content

Integrating data & “publishing” in a Scratchpad

Taxon Pages

With data curation toolsWith data curation tools

Integrating data & “publishing” in a Scratchpad

Taxon Pages

Listing all “authors”

Integrating data & “publishing” in a Scratchpad

Taxon Pages

Dated, permanent & citable

Integrating data & “publishing” in a Scratchpad

Taxon Pages

Control what to display

Adjusting the layout

Taxon Pages

n.b. Taxon page tools have since been updated

Bibliographic data

Reference manager / Endnote support for bibliographies

Images

Image galleries,image upload & annotation

Phylogeny

Nexus / Newick import for visualizing phylogenies

Character Matricies

Molecular & morphological character matricies(discrete, morphometric and text characters, nexus & SDD export*)

Distribution Maps

Presence absence country maps

Specimens & locations

Specimen & location records (DwC)

Pages, Forums, Blogs, Newsletters

Web fora with e-mail integration

User blogs

Static web pages

Newsletters with e-mail integration

Mass Import

Import from CSV text file to any content type

Create & switch between content in any language

Multilingual Support

Administration

Simple & advanced admin.

AutoTag content(automatically adds structure)

Private Groups

Customized user profiles

Scratchpad Training

http://phthiraptera.myspecies.info

Username: usernamePassword: password

*Use Firefox, Safari, Chrome (not IE6)

Scratchpad Log-in*

http://sandbox.scratchpads.eu/Sandbox Test Site

Username: testPassword: pass

http://phthiraptera.myspecies.info/user/register

To discuss…

• New content areas• Only taxonomic content represented• Need an active “contributor” community• Need a new senior editor ?• Possible new Scratchpad developers ?

Questions?