Distributed Information Network for Avian Biodiversity Data

9808739本项目的目的是设计。实施和优化一个系统，使分类学家，保护生物学家。这将使决策者能够根据系统收集的数据和观测数据集获得有关鸟类分布和多样性的大量数据。它将由三个地理上分离的功能子系统组成。堪萨斯大学（KU）的第一个子系统仍然允许管理和访问五个大系统中的综合数据。在加拿大、美国和墨西哥的机构中，地理上分开的数据库。圣地亚哥超级计算机中心的第二个子系统将允许使用GIS数据库对数据子系统的结果进行用户设计的分析和可视化。第三个是基于Java的子系统，位于用户的机器上，将使用前两个子系统的结果进行GIS制图。该系统建立在一个现有的数据库和地图服务器开发的KU和SDSC开发的生物多样性洞察系统。Z39.50和CGI等开放协议将贯穿始终，以确保可扩展到其他数据库和其他分类群。允许系统包含许多附加的数据源。

9808739The aim of this project is to design. implement and optimize a system enabling taxono-mists, conservation biologists. and decision-makers to access large quantities of data regarding the distribution and diversity of birds based on data from systematic collections and observational data sets. It will be composed of three geographically separated func-tional subsystems The first subsystem at the University of Kansas (KU) still allows man-agement of and access to integrated data housed in five large. geographically separate databases in institutions in Canada, the United States and Mexico. The second subsystem at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, will permit user-designed analysis and visualiza-tion of results from the data subsystem using a GIS database. The third, Java-based sub-system, situated on users' machines, will perform GIS mapping using results from the first two subsystems. The system builds on an existing database and map server developed at KU and the Biodiversity Insight System developed at SDSC. Open protocols such as Z39.50 and CGI will be used throughout to ensure scalability to additional databases and other taxa. allowing the system to encompass many additional sources of data.