Scratchpads are built on Drupal (), an open source content management system. The Scratchpad also manages user registration, commenting on content and the various methods of displaying content. Scratchpads provides a community website (a Scratchpad) for collaboratively managing biodiversity-related content, in this case audio files, locations, specimens, bibliographic references and the biological taxonomy used to manage them.
BioAcoustica is a specialised instance of the Scratchpads (11) virtual research environment. Records of this type are aggregated by the Global Biodiversity Informatics Facility (GBIF: ) and can then be used in studies of global distribution of species. the recording of a species in the wild is an observation of that species at a particular time and place. The aims of BioAcoustica are 4-fold: (i), to make recordings available to as large an audience as possible in both human and machine readable formats (ii) to facilitate crowdsourced annotation of recordings (iii) to integrate common acoustic analyses without the need for additional specialist programs and (iv) provide the metadata of recordings to interested communities outside of the field of bioacoustics, e.g. Where collections are available, they generally do not deal with recordings containing multiple taxa or allow for annotation of regions containing spoken metadata or extraneous noise, e.g. In order to maximize the potential of these collections they need to be easily accessible, and linked with the broader infrastructures of biodiversity informatics.
Many libraries of recorded sound exist in institutional collections but these are often underused, often because knowledge of their exist- ence is limited within the institution, let alone outside of it. of recorded wildlife sounds have huge potential as a resource for systematics, e.g.
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