Scratchpad update, 29 January 2010

The manual for the advanced training course is now available at http://scratchpads.eu/scratchpad-training-files for everyone who wants to try on his own. It is particularly useful if you want to learn how to create views and if you want to learn how to prepare a project in secret and later publish all the data related to this project in one go. The latter uses the organic groups module and Simon has been fixing several issues with this module which became apparent during the writing of the manual.

Simon has been working on the taxonomy module and has dealt with the following:

• Forum
• Autotag of previously added content
• Organic Groups Forums added
• Advanced options hidden on the node/add or node/%nid/edit pages
• Improved sorting of views in widgets.

I have made a start at publishing online-only publications using faunistic 'papers' on the Milichiidae and Carnidae of Greece. These publications don't include nomenclatural acts and they would never get into an impact factor journal, so it is much better to publish them online. The review process can be done by adding comments and revising the content based on these comments. In contrast to paper publications, online publications can be updated continually, but a version of the original 'copy' is still available and can be viewed by users who are logged in. By preparing these publications I have created much improved and more data rich species pages for the included species and with each further publication data will accumulate and these species pages will get better.