Building a biodiversity content management system for science, education, and outreach
We describe the system architecture and data template design for the Animal Diversity Web (http://www.animaldiversity.org), an online natural history resource serving three audiences: 1) the scientific community, 2) educators and learners, and 3) the general public. Our architecture supports highly...
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| description | We describe the system architecture and data template design for the Animal Diversity Web (http://www.animaldiversity.org), an online natural history resource serving three audiences: 1) the scientific community, 2) educators and learners, and 3) the general public. Our architecture supports highly scalable, flexible resource building by combining relational and object-oriented databases. Content resources are managed separately from identifiers that relate and display them. Websites targeting different audiences from the same database handle large volumes of traffic. Content contribution and legacy data are robust to changes in data models. XML and OWL versions of our data template set the stage for making ADW data accessible to other systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4774ce56336549fba2c0dfd4762b87292022-12-21T18:34:24ZengUbiquity PressData Science Journal1683-14702006-01-01411110.2481/dsj.4.1354Building a biodiversity content management system for science, education, and outreachC S Parr0R Espinosa1T Dewey2G Hammond3P Myers4Human-Computer Interaction Lab, UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742Information Technology Central Services, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105Museum of Zoology, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109Museum of Zoology, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109Museum of Zoology, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109We describe the system architecture and data template design for the Animal Diversity Web (http://www.animaldiversity.org), an online natural history resource serving three audiences: 1) the scientific community, 2) educators and learners, and 3) the general public. Our architecture supports highly scalable, flexible resource building by combining relational and object-oriented databases. Content resources are managed separately from identifiers that relate and display them. Websites targeting different audiences from the same database handle large volumes of traffic. Content contribution and legacy data are robust to changes in data models. XML and OWL versions of our data template set the stage for making ADW data accessible to other systems.http://datascience.codata.org/articles/352Database designEvolving schemaEducationOntologiesBiodiversityInteroperability |
| spellingShingle | C S Parr R Espinosa T Dewey G Hammond P Myers Building a biodiversity content management system for science, education, and outreach Data Science Journal Database design Evolving schema Education Ontologies Biodiversity Interoperability |
| title | Building a biodiversity content management system for science, education, and outreach |
| title_full | Building a biodiversity content management system for science, education, and outreach |
| title_fullStr | Building a biodiversity content management system for science, education, and outreach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building a biodiversity content management system for science, education, and outreach |
| title_short | Building a biodiversity content management system for science, education, and outreach |
| title_sort | building a biodiversity content management system for science education and outreach |
| topic | Database design Evolving schema Education Ontologies Biodiversity Interoperability |
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