Building a biodiversity content management system for science, education, and outreach

Building a biodiversity content management system for science, education, and outreach

Blog Article

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: Transmission Rack 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 non-metal-chastity 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.