Scratchpads, a social networking tool to build, share and publish information on the diversity of life

Scratchpads are an easy to use, social networking application that enable communities of researchers to manage, share and publish taxonomic data online.

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Scratchpads are an easy to use, social networking application that enable communities of researchers to manage, share and publish taxonomic data online. Sites are hosted at the Natural History Museum London, and offered free to any scientist that completes an online registration form. Key features of the Scratchpads include tools to manage: Classifications, Phylogenies, Bibliographies, Documents, Images, Matrices & custom data, Specimen records and Maps.

Data added to a Scratchpad are automatically classified and grouped around a taxonomy that is supplied by the users or imported from EOL. This is optionally supplemented with information from high quality web accessible databases, to automatic construct content rich web pages about any documented taxon. Currently these sources include Genbank, Morphbank, GBIF, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Yahoo! Images, flickr, Google Scholar and Wikipedia.

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