Diversity Agents

Import Export

The chapter below refers to DiversityCollection but is valid for DiversityAgents as well. The CacheDatabase is accessed via DiversityCollection

An overview of some options for the im- and export in the module DiversityCollection is shown in the image below. The options Importwizard, Exportwizard, Archive and Replication are available in most of the modules.

Example for a data flow

The image below shows an expample for a data flow from the original source to the final GBIF-portal. As a first step the data are imported via the Import wizard are imported into the database. After the data are given free for publication, they are transferred into the cache database .  From there they are transferred into a Postgres database containing a package for conversion into ABCD. Finally the BioCASE tool for mapping the data is used to provide the data for GBIF.