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The modules.odg is of historical interest as a high level map over some important data types and services in the DINA system....
Some core data types Some associations to other data types
(NOUNS)
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| CollectionObject | incl "containers" and links to media, projects
+-----------------------+ catalogues, collection, determinations etc
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| Taxon / taxonomy | determinations, links to most other data types
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| Locality / places | links to geography, collecting events, ref works,
+-----------------------+ habitat, stratigraphy
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| Storage location | space (time?) coord for physical storage location
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| User/Agent/People | incl org/group links, generates events such as
+-----------------------+ determinations, accessions, loans etc
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| Reference work | citations
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| Media (binary assets)| depictions, sounds and other associated objects
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Higher level web APIs expose functionality needed for compound tasks, such as
- reporting / statistics / printing etiquettes etc
- "workbench" type functionality for migrating data in and out
- managing collections including loans, data entry etc
Web UI components provide clients or front-end to support these tasks
interactively and while doing so work against backend web APIs.
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| DNA (LIMS seqs etc) |
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| Species Profile | links text and images to a taxon,
+-----------------------+ describes habitat, behaviour etc
# Text diagrams can be created with JavE
# src: http://www.jave.de/download/download.html
# cmd: java -jar jave5.jar FRONT-ENDS / CLIENTS / WEB UIs
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|Coll Data Entry XL| |Species Profile| |DNA Seq Mgm | |Loans from Coll |
+------------------+ +---------------+ +-----------------+ +----------------+
+-------------------+ +--------------------+ +---------+ +----------------+
|Geological Coll Mgm| |Search UI for Colls | |Support | |Loans Mgm |
+-------------------+ +--------------------+ +---------+ +----------------+
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The UIs above | General Collections |
exist but not -> | Mangament Web UI |
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----------------------------DINA Web APIs--------------------------------------
BACK-ENDS / SERVERS / WEB APIs
+-------------+ +-------------+ +----------+ +-------------+ +-------------+
|Taxonomy API | |DNA Seq API | | SPM API | |Coll Mgm API | |Media API |
+-------------+ +-------------+ +----------+ +-------------+ +-------------+
The APIs +---------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ +--------------+
above exist |User API | |Locality API | |Storage API | | Batch IO API |
but not these -> +---------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ +--------------+
The following UI components are currently available and make use of the backend web APIs:
Existing modules and their respective doucumented web APIs:
- Taxonomy management
- [DNA data web APIs from seqdb](no online docs yet) DOCS IN PROGRESS
- Species Profile Model API in The Naturalist
- Media API DOCS IN PROGRESS
- [DINA Specify REST API](no online docs yet) DOCS IN PROGRESS
- [Dina Data Tool](no online docs yet) DOCS IN PROGRESS
Here are information about various guidelines and principles of construction that inspire and guide the construction, design and future development of DINA-Web:
- Functional guidelines - API design guidelines
- Style guidelines - Visual design guidelines
- Licensing guidelines
- Data exchange guidelines - Import and export of data
Please see Infrastructure for an overview of the technology stack that the DINA system runs on.