Why choose Scratchpads?
Create your own site
Create your own website to connect, work with and share your data.
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Publish your data online
Scratchpads are an easy and effective way to present your data online.
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Contribute to biodiversity knowledge
Link and share your structured data to make it widely accessible.
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Collaborate with your peers
Whether you want to prepare a paper with colleagues, build a bibliographic database or create
a reference collection of images and observations, Scratchpads can help.
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Join the community!
Case studies
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DEST
The Distributed European School of Taxonomy (DEST) aims at transferring knowledge between current and future generations of taxonomists by providing high quality education and prepare students for future taxonomic careers. DEST is using Scratchpads as a coordination and dissemination platform.
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Solanaceae Source
Solanaceae Source aims to provide a worldwide taxonomic monograph of the nightshade family, Solanaceae. The family is of considerable economic importance and contains species that are used as food (potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants), medicines (henbane and deadly nightshades) and in horticulture (petunias)
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Sampled Red List Index for Plants
SRLI for Plants collects vital information on plant species, including habitat, population and threats, which are used to determine risk of extinction. This is part of an ongoing monitoring effort to help understand the status and trends of plant species over time.
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African ichthyology portal
Africhthy is a web portal for African ichthyology created to make available species data & literature as well as to promote efficient networking and collaboration among professionals, students and hobbyists.
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AntKey
Antkey is a community resource for the identification of invasive, introduced and commonly intercepted ant species from across the globe
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Feeds
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Next Steps in the Evolution of Scratchpads
This week at the TDWG 2020 conference we presented our intention to migrate Scratchpads away from its current Drupal codebase and towards a system that’s easier to support. Part of this involves an exploration of data storage platforms that we can partner with so that our developers can focus more on the user interface.Read more -
Scratchpads release 2.9.12
Scratchpads version 2.9.12 has been released, and we are in the process of updating all sites to this latest version.Read more -
Scratchpads release 2.9.11
Scratchpads version 2.9.11 has been released, and we are in the process of updating all sites to this latest version.Read more -
Scratchpads release 2.9.8
The Scratchpads 2.9.8 release is a maintenance release, fixing a few minor bugs and upgrading Drupal from 7.63 to 7.67.Read more -
New training course and release of versions 2.9.6 & 2.9.7
It's been a busy few months for the Scratchpad team. Today, we completed the deployment of Scratchpads version 2.9.7 to all sites. This was the culmination of the first six-week sprint from Ginger, who implemented the following bug fixes and features in this release:Read more- Fixed overlapping borders in tables (#5863 - @alycejenni)
- Search submits after clicking an autocomplete suggestion (#5869 - @alycejenni)
- Stopped the upload button jumping around (#5871 - @alycejenni)
- Fixed image display issues on species pages slideshows (#5873 - @alycejenni)
- Allow blocks to be added to main content (#5876 - @benscott)
- "Other" added to gender options in biographies (#5879 - @alycejenni)
- Hide Auto label from Admin>Structure (#5880 - @alycejenni)
- View recently opened/closed issues from sidebar (#5887 - @alycejenni)
- Italics tags allowed in biblio titles again (#5898 - @alycejenni)
- Display terms in a fallback language if not defined in current language (#5905 - @alycejenni)
- Autotag's "fields to populate" drop-down items (#5906 - @alycejenni)
- Fixed AJAX error in contact form when Antibot enabled (#5907 - @alycejenni)
- Fixed CSS issues with custom non-view blocks (#5909 - @alycejenni)
- Titles for custom blocks now display (#5910 - @alycejenni)
- Crossbrowser maps fix (#5904 - @benscott)
- Replace Google-based maps (gm3 module) ( @PaulKiddle)
- Character handling in Literature (#5831, #5803 - @benscott)
- Greek letters (#5769 - @benscott)
- Large file uploads (#5763 - @benscott)
- Performance issues (#5743 - @benscott)
- Private groups context indexing (#5699 - @benscott)
- Spam user registration (#5687 - @benscott)
- Scratchpads classification service (#5674 - @benscott)
- Taxonomy tree widget (#5657 - @benscott)
- Docker SOLR replace image ( @benscott)
- EOL services access #5688 (@benscott)
- Scratchpad sandbox offline (#5824 - @benscott)
- Scratchpads.eu stats (#5689 - @benscott)
- PHP 7.1 Docker (#5808 - @benscott)
Scratchpads around the world
Our 26 Scratchpads ambassadors are located across the globe: