Modules

The Diversity Workbench is a set of components for building and managing biodiversity information, each of which focuses on a particular domain. To see the open connections to other modules, choose Connection - Module connections …. from the menu. Each component can provide services to the other components. The optional links to other modules within the Diversity Workbench are shown in the image below. [DiversityGazetteer, DiversityReferences, DiversityProjects, DiversityCollection]

Descriptions

Descriptions

If you are connected to a DiversityDescriptions database (see menu Connection - Module connections … ), and you select the option Scan module DiversityDescriptions the program will search in all available databases for descriptions linked to the current name. If you select an entry from the list the basic data as provided by the module DiversityDescriptions are shown. To see the details of the data you have to set the link to the software DiversityDescriptions.exe with a click on the  botton (see below).

After this link is set, you can click on the  botton to open the software with the details of the selected dataset (see below). For an introduction see a short tutorial.

Specimen

Specimen

If you are connected to a DiversityCollection database (see menu Connection -> Module connections … ), and you select the option Scan module DiversityCollection the program will search in all available databases for specimen linked to the current name. With the option Restrict to type specimen you can restrict this search to type specimen. If you select an entry from the list the basic data as provided by the module DiversityCollection are shown. To see the details of the data you have to set the link to the software DiversityCollection.exe with a click on the  botton (see below).

All DiversityCollection databases listed in the connections will be scanned for links to the selected name (see above). To see the details select the entry in the tree (see below).

A click on the button will open the client of DiversityCollection with the respective dataset (see below. In case the installation path of DiversityCollection is not detected by default, you will be asked to enter it. If the option Restrict to type specimen is selected, only type specimen will be listed. For an introduction see  a short tutorial.

To forward changes in DiversityTaxonNames to databases containing data linked to data in e.g. DiversityCollection you must include the corresponding databases as described here. After changes in the data the button will be marked with a pink background       indicating the option to update the linked data. Click on the button to perform the update as described here .