GrassPortal (www.grassportal.org) will allow users to access and visualize information on the name and description, geographical distribution, ecological characteristics and evolutionary relationships for all the world’s grass species. GrassPortal will integrate and link these data within a web interface, providing research and educational users with tools for interacting, discovering and extracting information.
We are currently recruiting potential users and would like participants to take part in our user evaluation survey and in so doing also have the option to become early users of the beta-version of the portal before it goes publicly online. The online survey provides a number of different scenarios for the use of GrassPortal and then asks a number of questions of the user that will help us to decide on the ultimate structure and content of GrassPortal. This is a very important part of the portal design as it will tell us what users actually do and don’t want from GrassPortal. If you are interested in participating, please email Vernon Visser for further details ([email protected]). -- Post-doctoral Research Associate Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences Alfred Denny Building The University of Sheffield Western Bank S10 2TN United Kingdom
