Research data repositories

For each component of the DWB we are providing a comprehensive documentation of the application and the information model online. The framework for these components is currently still under development as we continue to learn about the necessary components and the best approach to the modularization of biodiversity information. A draft paper distributed by G. Hagedorn in 2002 provided insight into the framework concept. In an initial phase during the BMBF programme BIOLOG-IT with the GLOPP project (2000 until 2003) a set of prototypes was developed in Microsoft Access. The prototype applications are still available. With the exception of DeltaAccess/DiversityDescriptions they are by now largely obsolete. Between 2003 and 2008 further applications were set up as part of the GBIF-D Mycology project using .Net technology and JAVA. Since 2006 the software development is continued as one of the general tasks of the SNSB IT Center. Starting with 2009 some advanced IT concepts and technical developments for smartphone apps became part of the DFG-funded DiversityMobile/ IBF infrastructure project. Certain GBIF relevant DWB-tools were optimized within the joint BMBF-funded research project GBIF-D " Kompetenzzentren innovativer Datenmobilisierung". DWB systems and services are used by the German Barcode of Life project and by three DFG-funded research infrastructure projects, namely BiNHum, IDES and MOD-CO. They are in work for the data management at several German herbaria for the JSTOR plant science network and for the data handling in the Flora of Bavaria.