Modules

The Diversity Workbench is a set of components for building and managing biodiversity information, each of which focuses on a particular domain.


DiversityAgents	Administration of the agents, i.e. people and institutions which should be documented with e.g. their addresses
<img src=“img/IcoDiversityCollection.gif” data-align=“left”
height=“16” /> DiversityCollection	Administration of the scientific collections, specimens within these collections and observations
<img src=“img/IcoDiversityDescriptions.gif” data-align=“left”
height=“16” /> DiversityDescriptions	Administration of the descriptive data
<img src=“img/IcoDiversityGazetteer.gif” data-align=“left”
height=“16” /> DiversityGazetteers	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
DiversityProjects	Administration of projects
<img src=“img/IcoDiversityReferences.gif” data-align=“left”
height=“16” /> DiversityReferences	Administration of litarature references
<img src=“img/IcoDiversityTaxonNames.gif” data-align=“left”
height=“16” /> DiversityTaxonNames	Administration of taxonomic names, their synonyms and hierarchical position

Each module provides services for the other modules. To use the service of a module, you need access to the database of the module and optionally the module application placed in your application directory.