The Diversity Workbench is composed of components for building and managing biodiversity information, each of which focuses on a particular domain. Each component can provide services to the other components. DiversityDescriptions can link data to the modules DiversityCollection, DiversityTaxonNames, DiversityGazetteers and DiversityReferences as illustrated in the image below. DiversityProjects together with DiversityAgents provide support for administration of data access rights.
The modules communicate with each other to provide their services for the other modules.