[ALA-Portal] Myriatrix Scratchpad conversion to Living Atlas

[Myriatrix Admin]

Hi Dave,
Yes, it is of use, thanks! I do use the Taxon Description content type in
Myriatrix. A very nice feature in the Scratchpads taxon descriptions is
that if a bibliographic reference is already in the internal database, just
citing its unique number with a so-called "bib tag" or "citekey" will
automatically build that reference and others into a reference list at the
end of each free text field, in a standard format.
See example for *Scolopendra gigantea* Linnaeus, 1758, fields "General
description" and "Distribution":
https://myriatrix.myspecies.info/taxonomy/term/9017/descriptions

Internally, there is no "References" section written. One just writes like
this:
See Kraepelin (1903: 233 <https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29551367>
)[bib]308[/bib], Attems (1930: 39-40)[bib]303[/bib], Shelley & Kiser (2000:
160-161)[bib]1913[/bib], Shelley (2006: 26)[bib]251[/bib], and Lewis (2016:
24, Table 1)[bib]1229[/bib].
... and the software does the rest.

Cheers,
Carlos

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 12:08 PM Martin, Dave (NCMI, Black Mountain) <
David.Martin at csiro.au> wrote:

> In case it is of use, the tool on ALA/Living Atlas side for
> scratchpad-like functionality is what we call “Profiles”.
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> https://profiles.ala.org.au/
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> https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Trichomanes%20caudatum
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> This allows users to add descriptive information about taxa and is
> intended to provide some of the tools a taxonomic workbench might consist
> of. I don’t think any LA instance outside of ALA is using Profiles
> currently.
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> It is also worth noting its dependent on a number of other services being
> setup (occurrences stack, taxon services etc).
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> Cheers
>
> Dave
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> *From: *ALA-Portal <ala-portal-bounces at lists.gbif.org> on behalf of
> Myriatrix Admin via ALA-Portal <ala-portal at lists.gbif.org>
> *Date: *Thursday, 15 June 2023 at 10:43 am
> *To: *Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org>
> *Cc: *Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado <vjrj at comunes.org>, Markus Döring <
> mdoering at gbif.org>, ala-portal at lists.gbif.org <ala-portal at lists.gbif.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [ALA-Portal] Myriatrix Scratchpad conversion to Living
> Atlas
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Good idea! I hope that Vicente will be able to join our meeting!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carlos
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> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 9:41 AM Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote:
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> Thanks Carlos,
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> I suggest we add this to our agenda to discuss in our meeting on Monday.
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> Markus and I would like to understand your overall data management and we
> can then explain what tools might be a good fit to explore.
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> Vicente, we’re meeting at 14:00 Monday – please ping me on slack if you
> would like to join that.
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>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
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> *From: *ALA-Portal <ala-portal-bounces at lists.gbif.org> on behalf of
> Myriatrix Admin via ALA-Portal <ala-portal at lists.gbif.org>
> *Date: *Thursday, 15 June 2023 at 09.21
> *To: *ala-portal at lists.gbif.org <ala-portal at lists.gbif.org>
> *Subject: *[ALA-Portal] Myriatrix Scratchpad conversion to Living Atlas
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> As some of you may know, the Natural History Museum of London has decided
> to stop supporting the virtual research environment Scratchpads, as the
> underlying Drupal 7 is coming to its end of life and the NHM does not have
> the resources to migrate Scratchpads to a newer Drupal version.
>
> Since 2019, I have put a lot of effort into the Myriatrix Scratchpad (
> https://myriatrix.myspecies.info/), dedicated to the Myriapoda and
> Onychophora of the world. I would like to continue maintaining the database
> and keeping it accessible online. Would it be possible for the Atlas of
> Living Australia / Living Atlases community to support me with converting
> Myriatrix into a Living Atlas? I will be happy to contribute back, e. g.,
> with updated classifications (taxonomic backbones) for Myriapoda and
> Onychophora in the other Living Atlases.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Carlos
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> Carlos A. Martínez Muñoz
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> Myriatrix <http://myriatrix.myspecies.info/>
>
> ResearchGate profile
> <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Martinez-Munoz>
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> Myriapod Morphology and Evolution
> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/205802113162102/>
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