"We describe the system architecture and template design of "Scratchpads", a data-publishing framework for groups of people to create their own social networks supporting natural history science. Scratchpads cater to the particular needs of individual research communities through a common database and system architecture. This is flexible and scalable enough to support multiple networks, each with its own choice of features, visual design, and constituent data. Our data model supports web services on standardised data elements that might be used by related initiatives such as GBIF and the Encyclopedia of Life. A Scratchpad allows users to organise data around user-defined or imported ontologies, including biological classifications. Automated semantic annotation and indexing is applied to all content, allowing users to navigate intuitively and curate diverse biological data, including content drawn from third party resources. A system of archiving citable pages allows stable referencing with unique identifiers and provides credit to contributors through normal citation processes." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

modules mentioned: leftandright http://drupal.org/project... biblio http://drupal.org/project... cck http://drupal.org/project/cck og http://drupal.org/project/og image http://drupal.org/project... imagex http://drupal.org/project... creativecommons_lite http://drupal.org/project... simplenews http://drupal.org/project... wysiwyg http://drupal.org/project... autotag http://drupal.org/project... tinytax http://drupal.org/project... mado http://drupal.org/project/mado panels http://drupal.org/project... oai_pmh http://drupal.org/project... - Mike Chelen

pretty slick - Jean-Claude Bradley