The DiversityWorkbench is a set of components for building and managing biodiversity information, each of which focuses on a particular domain.
DiversityAgents
Administration of the agents, i.e. people and institutions which
should be
documented with e.g. their addresses
DiversityCollection
Administration of the scientific collections and specimens within
these
collections
DiversityExsiccatae
Administration of exsiccatal
series
DiversityGazetteer
A data
collection to enable the linking of geographical
records with
the Getty
Thesaurus of Geographical Names (TGN), the German GN250 database and
other
sources of geographical names
DiversityProjects
Administration of projects.
DiversityReferences
Administration of references
DiversitySamplingPlots
Administration of sampling plots
DiversityScientificTerms
Data
collections of scientific terms
from
foreign
sources like vegetation, stratigraphy, soil science etc. and for the description of
parts of the specimen like bones etc..
DiversityTaxonNames
Administration of taxonomic names,
their synonyms and
hierarchical position
Each module provides services for the other modules. To use the service of a module you require access to the database of the module and optionally the module application placed in your application directory.
In the figure shown below the connections to other modules within DiversityCollection are indicated.