The software produced in the framework of the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy has been put under a public license and is distributed as open source. Sustaining the EDIT Platform thus means supporting the open source environment that allows maintenance and further development of the Platform.
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Several workshops and demonstration sessions were organised by WP5 of the EDIT project to introduce the tools of the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy to the user community and to show the IT specialists of partner institutions how to support their researchers when they are using the Platform.
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This components reports about the 5th ISTC Meeting. Agenda: Version 3 of the Internet Platform for Cybertaxonomy, Results of User testing, Platform perspectives beyond the EDIT project period, Future role and procedures of the ISTC, Presentation of LifeWatch and Europeana Open Up, Joint support strategy – building a common infrastructure for CETAF.
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The Biodiversity Service & Application Tracker (BD tracker) is a collection of links to software, tools and resources useful to taxonomists (see also: M5.20a BD Tracker launched). The BD tracker was setup in the first project year and is now a Drupal based website. The links are categorised to types of software (application, data, link collection, tutorial) on one hand and to software categories (bibliography, collection management, descriptions, fieldwork, geospatial, keys, maps, nomenclature, taxonomy) on the other hand. Combined search options, e.g.
The Biodiversity Service & Application Tracker (BD tracker) is a collection of links to software, tools and resources useful to taxonomists (see also: M5.20a BD Tracker launched). The BD tracker was setup in the first project year and is now a Drupal based website: http://www.bdtracker.net.
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The fifth ISTC meeting will be held on October 7th 8th, 2010 in the Conference Room (A105) on the 2nd Floor of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, D-14191 Berlin, Germany.
Please note that the meeting is open only to ISTC members.
The EDIT contract and consortium agreement specify that software produced in the project will be put under a public license and be distributed as open source. Sustaining the EDIT Platform thus means supporting the open source environment that allows maintenance and further development of the Platform. All partners involved in Platform software development are committed to attracting further project funding to improve the Platform, and some such projects are already in place (PESI, SYNTH¬ESYS II, BHL-Europe) and an increasing number of applications are being submitted.
This is a report on the fourth ISTC meeting held in September 15-16, 2009 in Berlin, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem and a draft version of the fifth Joint Periodic Activity (JPA5) of Workpackage 5.
The following aspects were discussed:
The ISTC has decided that a co-ordinated international effort is needed to create an Internet Platform for Cybertaxonomy, i.e. a distributed computing platform that assists taxonomists to do revisionary taxonomy and taxonomic field work efficiently, expediently and via the web. EDIT initiated a series of MoUs, each identical except for the understandings or agreements stated in Paragraph 4. Four different documents initiated by the ISTC are available up to now. EDIT partners were be invited to sign up to whichever MoU they can
The 4th ISTC meeting was held on September 15-16, 2009 at the Department of Biodiversity Informatics and Laboratories at Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum in Berlin. The agenda covered the following aspects:
Version 2 of the Internet Platform for Cybertaxonomy
Use of standardised evaluation procedures for platform components
Integration and sustainability
Preparing for the 5th Joint Programme of Activities