Using Scratchpads in grant applications

The material below is intended to be used in grant applications that intend to use a Scratchpad to share project results.

You are free to modify it as necessary.  Please let us know if you use it.  We would like to know:

• the grant call;
• the PI;
• the title of the application.

We will use this information in the context of our own usage statistics.  Please e-mail scratchpads@nhm.ac.uk

Data Sharing Policy or Outreach

"Scratchpads are a system of hosted web sites supporting data sharing within the broad field of natural history development which is currently funded by the EU FP7 project ViBRANT (http://vbrant.eu Project No. 261532).  The Scratchpad project provides the computer infrastructure and users provide the content which, by default, is published under a Creative Commons by-sa-nc licence.  Copyright and ownership of the data remain with the data creator and do not pass to the Scratchpad project.  Web sites support appropriate data standards, such as Darwin Core, and provide APIs for indexing by portals such as GBIF and EoL.  The sites are also fully indexed by Google and similar search engines. Current project funding runs to the end of 2013 and London's Natural History Museum guarantees continued basic support for at least a further 5 years."