Diversity Workbench
The Diversity Workbench is a set 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. DiversityAgents provides information for other modules like DiversityCollection and DiversityTaxonNames.
Module of the Diversity Workbench | Description |
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Agents | Administration of the agents, i.e. people and institutions which should be documented with e.g. their addresses |
Collection | Administration of the scientific collections and specimens within these collections |
Descriptions | Administration of the knowledge about descriptions of organisms and descriptions of any other item/ element/ entity |
Exsiccatae | Administration of bibliographic information and standardized abbreviations of botanical and mycological exsiccatae in a global index |
Gazetteer | A data collection to enable the linking of geographical records with the Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names (TGN), the German GN250 database and other sources of geographical names |
Projects | Administration of (research) projects as well as data collections, data packages/ datasets processed by the other DWB modules |
References | Administration of bibliographic data about each kind of scientific publication |
Sampling Plots | Administration of individual sampling plots and assigned toponyms with their hierarchy |
Scientific Terms | Data collections of scientific terms from foreign sources like vegetation, stratigraphy, soil science etc. and for the description of parts of the specimen like bones etc.. |
Taxon Names | Administration of taxonomic names, their synonyms and hierarchical position |