Hello there, I’ll be (hopefully) starting a research project in a few months for my undergrad. I’m not completely familiarized with which species occur in the region and their diagnostic features so I was thinking that I could go through papers and compile this info into a dataset/database (?). Fi…

Scratchpads is not loading for me… have you encountered this issue? It sounds interesting but I can’t even see what it is! [image]

Try again? Works for me now from Cape Town. https://scratchpads.org/support/sandbox https://scratchpads.org/support/ambassadors/current even one from Rhodes University in Grahamstown

Any tool that stores data in table form rows X columns will do at first, even a simple spreadsheet. I would recommend you to concentrate initially on the type of data that you want to collect, rather than the tool. At a first glance, Scratchpads site seems rather inactive in recent times – not a g…

[image] roysh: Are there similar/better platforms? Why not wikipedia? Whenever I learn something new on iNaturalist, I try to document it in wikipedia (assuming I can find a reliable source to go along with it). In this way, I not only keep track of items that would otherwise be lost, but the…

[image] gabrif: At a first glance, Scratchpads site seems rather inactive in recent times – not a good sign. Yes, I guess if I run into an error or something probably there won’t be much support. Some of the strachpads are still been updated tho [image] gabrif: Any tool that stores data …

Wikipedia is not designed for original research, but I have found Wikiversity useful for this sort of thing - I have used it for lists of references (e.g. here: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Alandmanson/Soil_fertility_and_grasslands ), as well as for projects that I want to share (here: https…

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roysh March 22, 2022, 10:59pm 6

I guess it could work, something like an article that kind of summarize the info with additional ones from taxa.

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