Why choose Scratchpads?

Create your own site

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Publish your data online

Scratchpads are an easy and effective way to present your data online. READ MORE

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Contribute to biodiversity knowledge

Link and share your structured data to make it widely accessible. READ MORE

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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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Hosted Scratchpads ending - sites read-only from September 2023

Over 13 years ago, the Natural History Museum Informatics team established Scratchpads.org to provide a

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Scratchpads around the world

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Our 26 Scratchpads ambassadors are located across the globe: