Collaboration

In progress - the intent is to provide verbiage to grant seekers who wish to collaborate with us.

Verbiage for collaborators writing grants
•	TaxonWorks, the new standard for taxonomic workbench tools •	Why TaxonWorks o	stable endowment supported o	Unified workbench (specimens, character matrices, keys, publication ready output) concept: Species File, MX, 3i o	Software group of Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois o	Built in a collaborative Ruby codebase o	6 full time staff for development, debugging, hardware maintenance o	Meets current data standards (DwC, TDWG…) o	Internet based o	Global data sharing: CoL, GBIF (DwC-A), ITIS, EoL •	Provide MX for short-term use •	Migrate to TaxonWorks in 2015