Conference proceeding
My-Plant.org: A phylogenetically structured social network
2010 Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE)
Nov 2010
Abstract
My-Plant.org (My-Plant) is a social networking portal for the Plant Sciences community. As part of the iPlant Collaborative, My-Plant is charged with the goal of bringing together scientists, students, educators, and other interested parties by providing a new approach to connecting with others in the plant sciences thereby helping to spark new collaborations and communication among them. Many social networking sites exist where users can form groups and communicate, but the group structure is flat and has no inherent interconnectivity. My-Plant connects users via branches (called clades) of the phylogenetic tree of green plants, thus creating a unique, phylogenetically based social network structure. My-Plant users can join clades at any level of the tree and collaborate with other users interested in these clades. My-Plant is built upon the Drupal open source content management system. This paper discusses My-Plant in detail, its concept and contributions to the iPlant Collaborative, its implementation details, and its efforts to become an information hub for the plant sciences community. In addition, the paper focuses on some of the technology challenges, lessons learned, and future work of My-Plant.
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Details
- Title
- My-Plant.org: A phylogenetically structured social network
- Creators
- M R Hanlon - Computing CenterS Mock - Computing CenterP Nuthulapati - Computing CenterM B Gonzales - Computing CenterP Soltis - Florida Museum of Natural HistoryD Soltis - Florida Museum of Natural HistoryL C Majure - Florida Museum of Natural HistoryA Payton - Florida Museum of Natural HistoryB Mishler - University of California, BerkeleyS Tremblay - University of California, BerkeleyT Madsen - University of California, BerkeleyR Olmstead - University of WashingtonR McCourt - Drexel UniversityM Wojciechowski - Arizona State UniversityN Merchant - University of Arizona
- Publication Details
- 2010 Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science (BEES)
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-78751526047
- Other Identifier
- 991019319386104721