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ScratchPads – Research Community Working On the Web
http://www.editwebrevisions.info/scratchpads

Scratchpads provide you and your community of researchers a space to work on the web. They are easy to use, adaptable to reflect your needs, and provide you with powerful tools for managing your data. An intuitive web-application, enabling communities of taxonomists to collaboratively build, share, manage and publish their data on the web. Scratchpads are easy to use, adaptable to taxonomists needs, and provide powerful tools for managing biological information. Major features include: a) Unlimited content (pages, images, maps, bibliographies, phylogenies, DNA sequences, specimen lists, classifications, forums) or define your own content type; b) Workflows for data import (includes MS Excel support) and editing; c) User controlled hierarchies to classify content; d) Unlimited and controllable sites membership; e) Public, private and user defined access groups; f) Context sensitive user profiles; g) Rich text (WYSIWYG) editing & intuitive administration; and h) User defined web addresses. Scratchpads are independent and unconnected, allowing communities to create distinct customized sites tailored to their needs. They are built on the content management system Drupal (http://drupal.org/), and managed on servers at the Natural History Museum, London. Content is archived such that it can be cited like a traditional publication. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.