Diversity Agents

Scope of DiversityAgents within the Diversity Workbench

DiversityAgents is the module for the administration of agents within the Diversity Workbench. DiversityAgents provides information for other modules like DiversityCollection and DiversityTaxonNames. DiversityAgents keeps only data connected with the handling of agents. Data of other realms like e.g. projects or references are handled in separate modules. For an overview of the available modules see the image below. DiversityAgents might also be used as a stand-alone application.

Data managment sectors of the application

Sector	Description
Agent	A person, institution etc.
Contacts	Contacts of an agent including address, phone number, e-mail etc.
Keyword	Keywords characterizing the agent
Project	The projects that a agent is a part of
Images	Images related to the agent, e.g. a portrait
References	The references related to the agent
Hierarchy	Additional hierarchies of the agent, e.g. when an agent has contracts in several companies
Relations	Relations of the agent, e.g. child of …
Descriptor	Descriptors of the agent
Identifier	IDs of the agents, e.g. ORCID
External sources	Source where the data have been taken or relation to external soucres

Usage example

An agent with several contact addresses (office, private, mobile) is working for two institutions. This agent has been included in several projects and there are images of the agent. The agent has children working in one of the institution. The agent among other identifiers has an ORCID. The instituions where the agent is working for are described with predefined values.

Relations and connections between the various sectors

Main form of DiversityAgents

To start the application double click on DiversityAgents.exe.

The first time you start the application you have to configure the connection to the database (Connection, Server ... ) you want to work with. The header of your form allways shows you, with which database you are working, the version of the client, the database server and your login.

To see the descriptions for the fields of the database, simply move your mouse over it. A tooltip will appear with an explanation of the field.

Where you have to choose items from lists, type the beginning of the item name in the field and then click on the drop down button . This will start a query in the database and list the result in the combobox. If contents can be linked to an other module, click on the  button to start a query in this module.