Collaboration
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In progress - the intent is to provide verbiage to grant seekers who wish to collaborate with us.
Verbiage for collaborators writing grants
- TaxonWorks, a community developed open source platform for biodiversity informatics
- Why TaxonWorks
- stable endowment supported
- Unified workbench (specimens, character matrices, keys, publication ready output) concept: Species File, MX, 3i
- Software group of Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois
- Why TaxonWorks
- Built in a collaborative Ruby codebase
- 6 full time staff for development, debugging, hardware maintenance
- Meets current data standards (DwC, TDWG…)
- Internet based
- Global data sharing: CoL, GBIF (DwC-A), ITIS, EoL
- Provide MX for short-term use
- Migrate to TaxonWorks in 2015