ITR/IM(BIO): Biodiversity Data Discovery and Integration

基于网络的物种信息的多样性反映了地球上生命的巨大多样性。 这些信息通常很难找到，使用起来也不方便。 对科学家有用的网页往往是学童无法访问的，教育网页通常没有研究兴趣。 与库存丰富的建筑物供应仓库不同，生物数据库和网页很难定位和联合收割机结合成连贯的结构，本项目使用组件架构来无缝集成生物多样性网络信息。 它介绍了构建模块来定位物种名称的起源和权威，提取物种分布图，并提供了螺母和螺栓，通过这些螺母和螺栓，可以使不相关的数据库和网站进行合作。 这是通过使用XML来实现的，XML是一种可扩展标记语言，已用于解决网络其他部分的类似问题。 该项目开发了XML网关，使灵活的数据源不能产生XML，并提供多个视图相同的数据。 为了说明其广泛的用途，该框架将提供给一组与生物本科生和研究生合作的学校教师，以制作一个可在网上访问的波士顿哥伦比亚角栖息地实地指南，以及课堂使用的课程材料。

The tremendous diversity of life on the planet is mirrored by the diversity of web-based information about species. This information is often difficult to find and unfriendly to use. Web pages that are useful to scientists are often inaccessible to schoolchildren, and education pages usually hold no research interest. Unlike the parts in a well-stocked building supply warehouse, the databases and web pages about organisms are difficult to locate and combine into coherent structure.This project uses a component architecture to integrate biodiversity web information seamlessly. It introduces building blocks to locate the origin and authority of a species name, to extract maps for species distribution, and provides nuts and bolts by which unrelated databases and web site can be made to cooperate. This is achieved through using XML, the eXtensible Markup Language that has been used in solving comparable problem in other parts of the web. The project develops XML gateways to make flexible the data sources not able to produce XML and provides multiple views on the same data. This accommodates different purposes, educational background and ages, for example.To illustrate its broad utility, the framework will be provided to a group of school teachers working with biology undergraduates and graduate students to produce a web-accessible field guide to the habitats of Columbia Point, Boston, together with curricular material for classroom use.