Project website Description
agINFRA http://aginfra.eu/ An FP7 project that kicked off in November 11. Plan to use Scratchpads code-base to develop their social media tool (agriDrupal) in the agricultural domain. One funded post will work on data extraction at the OU with the WP7 team.
BioVel http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/biovel/ BioVeL (Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory) will meet the needs of Europe’s Biodiversity Science research community with tools for pipelining data and analysis into efficient workflows, urgently needed to understand biodiversity in a rapidly changing environment. ViBRANT provided a letter of support. The project started 1st Sept. 2011 and relates to ViBRANT through WP5 and WP4 (BGBM and NCB-UvA are members of the BioVeL consortium).
biowikifarm http://biowikifarm.net/ The wiki component of ViBRANT, supporting open biodiversity content. Similar to the DRUPAL environments (Scratchpads), the ViBRANT project offers a comprehensive Mediawiki environment, the "biowikifarm". Participation in existing Wikis is welcome, but it is also possible to create a new wiki with a special goal. The benefits of using the biowikifarm over installing a wiki on any other server or homepage plan are the shared administration and the long-term availability and maintenance plan. Wikis on the biowikifarm can be maintained over significantly longer time periods. Furthermore custom extensions for biodiversity are developed or already available.
COMBER http://www.comber.hcmr.gr COMBER (Citizens’ Network for the Observation of Marine BiodivERsity), has been created under ViBRANT. It is designed and implemented for divers and snorkelers who are interested in participating in marine biodiversity citizen science projects. It shows the necessity of engaging the broader community in marine biodiversity monitoring and research projects, networks and initiatives. It analyses the stakeholders, the industry and the relevant markets involved in diving activities and their potential to sustain these activities. Plans include promotion, links with citizen science web developments, data publishing tools, and development of new scientific hypotheses to be tested by the data collected so far.
EMBOS http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions... Development and implementation of a pan-European Marine Biodiversity Observatory System (EMBOS), is an EU project funded by the COST instrument.
eMonocot http://e-monocot.org/ A UK-NERC funded project to create a global online resource for monocot plants. It will use some Scratchpad technology and Vince Smith (Project coordinator) is a PI on the project.
EoL http://www.eol.org/ Collaboration between Scratchpads and EoL's LifeDesks, moving to a common code base. Data exchange functions between individual Scratchpads and EoL
GeoCAT http://geocat.kew.org/ GeoCAT is an open source, browser based tool that performs rapid geospatial analysis to ease the process of Red Listing taxa. Developed to utilise spatially referenced primary occurrence data, the analysis focuses on two aspects of the geographic range of a taxon: the extent of occurrence (EOO) and the area of occupancy (AOO). These metrics form part of the IUCN Red List categories and criteria and have often proved challenging to obtain in an accurate, consistent and repeatable way.
Identification key webservice http://www.identificationkey.fr Identification keys are widely used by scientists to identify taxa. This new identification key generation WebService will be able to generate single-access keys on demand, for single users or research institutions. It will receive user input data (using the standard SDD format), accept several parameters for the key generation (impacting the key topology and representation), and will support several output formats. Furthermore, key generation automation will be possible thanks to the WebService architecture. This WebService will be integrated in the Scratchpads biodiversity networking tool, with an embedded client component. It will also be possible for anyone to develop his own client component in order to call the WebService directly. The whole WebService and its source code will be freely available, thus allowing large institutions to deploy the WebService on their own network and adapt it to their specific needs.
JEMU & FWO Research community ‘Belgian Network for DNA Barcoding’ http://jemu.myspecies.info Uses Scratrchpads as website for its integrated research infrastructure JEMU (Joint Experimental Molecular Unit), for BeBOL, the Belgian Network for DNA barcoding and for the announcement and logistics of the congress ECBOL3. Project coordinator is Thierry Backeljau, WP leader in ViBRANT WP3.
LifeWatch http://www.lifewatch.eu/ An ESFRI project in the implementation phase in several EU countries. Scratchpads will provide a prototype service desk (user interface). GBIF will provide data. LifeWatch will provide analytical services. Wouter Los, lead of ViBRANT WP4 has been the coordinator of the LifeWatch preparatory projects, W. Berendsohn has led the LifeWatch WP on the LifeWatch implementation plan.
OBOE https://oboe.oerc.ox.ac.uk OBOE is the Oxford Batch Operation Engine. Its purpose is to provide the background computing power for services made available to users via Scratchpads, the OBOE machine API, or OBOE's own web interface. Services are computer programs that might normally be run as self-contained command-line applications. With OBOE these programs are deployed as cloud computing services making the software requirements and mechanisms entirely transparent to the user. Users are freed from the overheads of computing and can concentrate exclusively on the outputs and results. This site is the human front-end for users developed as part of WP5. All services available here can also be accessed via the machine API.
OpenUp! http://open-up.eu/ Opening up the Natural History Heritage for Europeana. Uses a Scratchpad for its home page. Project coordinator is Walter Berendsohn, FU-BGBM, partner in ViBRANT WP4 & WP2.
PESI http://eu-nomen.eu The Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI) is an EC FP7 project, which defines and coordinates strategies to enhance the quality and reliability of European biodiversity information and information services. In particular, PESI aims to establish an authoritative taxonomic reference list for Europe. Yde de Jong, co-leader of ViBRANT WP4 is the coordinator of PESI. The PESI taxonomic services are hosted by BGBM (PESI CDM-store) and VLIZ (PESI portal).
RefBank http://vbrant.ipd.uka.de/RefBank/search A repository for bibliographical citations in the natural sciences.
Scratchpads http://scratchpads.eu/ The social media component of ViBRANT. Born in the FP6 EDIT project (http://www.e-taxonomy.eu).
VECTORS http://www.marine-vectors.eu/ Vectors of Change in Oceans and Seas Marine Life, Impact on Economic Sectors (VECTORS) is a European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project.
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