Biodiversity Information Group develops software tools and data standards that enable herbaria and museums to create dynamic distributed queries of their online databases.
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reference: http://hiscom.chah.org.au/wiki/index.php/AVHProgrammingProgress implemented tasks: 3 - Input field validation - and provide appropriate error message 4 - Add support for auto wildcarding of left parts of dates and geocodes not specified, including date range queries. 5 - Fix HTML-output: There are no borders around some of the output boxes in the HTML table, eg. "Other collecters" boxes (Rex suggests add ) 6 - Geocode outputs should be accurate in restricted area. But should limit to 5 decimal places (this allows for accuracies to 1 m) 7 - Clear button in Simple Query page 8 - Create a pull down menu listing standard HISPID5 Infraspecific rank options for ease of use, for public and extended queries. Changing the interface is easy. However most herbaria are not providing standard HISPID values - e.g. ssp ssp. subsp subsp. - so need some work to edit and standardize them. 10 - Add: toggle button to either select all Herbaria or clear. 11 - Deliver records collected from one or more States (location of collection), drop down list of States (SA, NSW, WA etc.), and All. Like in extended query, but ability to choose more than one state (this should also be changed in extended query) 13 - Wider box size that can handle full genus or species name - 20 characters 15 - For CSV and HTML outputs of all queries, add separate fields for genus, species, infra rank, infra name and qualifier, before full scientific name. 19 - For public output, decimal lat/long changed to 0.00, 0.17, 0.33 etc rather than 0.2, 0.4, etc 21 - No family column in extended query output 23 - Query for geocode precision less than X returns values with precsion greater than X. 24 - Allow selection of a range for geocode precision, <= textbox >= textbox 25 - Wrap text for long output strings in HTML to keep fixed box width, e.g. Notes 26 - Drop down selection menu for a small number of countries in the Australasian region, as well as text input. 27 - Split into two URLs for public and restricted. Restricted page should have specification for no web indexing from Google etc. 29 - New Task. Cron script to check that all AVH instances are working and email sysadmin if not. Requires modifying admin web interface to specify AVH URLs and emails for sysadmins This could be run at multiple sites (which would mean multiple emails to sysadmins). - fixed the bug which redirects user back to the index page after searching for Euphrasia collina and specifying map as the output 9 - Allow query on NULL to find records with NULL value for infraspecific name. Ensure that help specifies how to do this, by entering the string NULL. 12 - Data download just in CSV for public simple query. Do not provide email distribution of data for public interface since potential problems with malicious use. 16 - For extended query, input a list of species names (genus species irank iname) for bulk searching. Support both space delimited and comma delimited inputs, with comma delimited used to handle phrase names with spaces in them. 17 - Enable delivery of large outputs by providing an option of a URL for a data file, which is removed after a couple of days. Send email to specify URL. This requires modifying AVH code to directly generate CSV rather than XML, which will take some time. 20 - Problems with repeatable query results on different countries in login simple query. 22 - 28 - Simple query for restricted login should return MoU fields. Extended query should return MoU fields by default, with option to add or remove individual fields (as in current implementation) and checkboxes to request All fields or Default (MoU) fields. 31 - Provide data for how many queries are processed, how many records returned in total and from each herbarium. Initially just make available a monthly text log file containing date stamp, the query, user ID if restricted query, and number of records returned for each herbarium. Nice web pages presenting and histogramming this data to be added as part of future work. - Implement different warning and hard limits for restricted and public users
reference: http://hiscom.chah.org.au/wiki/index.php/AVHProgrammingProgress implemented tasks: 3 - Input field validation - and provide appropriate error message 4 - Add support for auto wildcarding of left parts of dates and geocodes not specified, including date range queries. 5 - Fix HTML-output: There are no borders around some of the output boxes in the HTML table, eg. "Other collecters" boxes (Rex suggests add ) 6 - Geocode outputs should be accurate in restricted area. But should limit to 5 decimal places (this allows for accuracies to 1 m) 7 - Clear button in Simple Query page 8 - Create a pull down menu listing standard HISPID5 Infraspecific rank options for ease of use, for public and extended queries. Changing the interface is easy. However most herbaria are not providing standard HISPID values - e.g. ssp ssp. subsp subsp. - so need some work to edit and standardize them. 10 - Add: toggle button to either select all Herbaria or clear. 11 - Deliver records collected from one or more States (location of collection), drop down list of States (SA, NSW, WA etc.), and All. Like in extended query, but ability to choose more than one state (this should also be changed in extended query) 13 - Wider box size that can handle full genus or species name - 20 characters 15 - For CSV and HTML outputs of all queries, add separate fields for genus, species, infra rank, infra name and qualifier, before full scientific name. 19 - For public output, decimal lat/long changed to 0.00, 0.17, 0.33 etc rather than 0.2, 0.4, etc 21 - No family column in extended query output 23 - Query for geocode precision less than X returns values with precsion greater than X. 24 - Allow selection of a range for geocode precision, <= textbox >= textbox 25 - Wrap text for long output strings in HTML to keep fixed box width, e.g. Notes 26 - Drop down selection menu for a small number of countries in the Australasian region, as well as text input. 27 - Split into two URLs for public and restricted. Restricted page should have specification for no web indexing from Google etc. 29 - New Task. Cron script to check that all AVH instances are working and email sysadmin if not. Requires modifying admin web interface to specify AVH URLs and emails for sysadmins This could be run at multiple sites (which would mean multiple emails to sysadmins). - fixed the bug which redirects user back to the index page after searching for Euphrasia collina and specifying map as the output 9 - Allow query on NULL to find records with NULL value for infraspecific name. Ensure that help specifies how to do this, by entering the string NULL. 12 - Data download just in CSV for public simple query. Do not provide email distribution of data for public interface since potential problems with malicious use. 16 - For extended query, input a list of species names (genus species irank iname) for bulk searching. Support both space delimited and comma delimited inputs, with comma delimited used to handle phrase names with spaces in them. 17 - Enable delivery of large outputs by providing an option of a URL for a data file, which is removed after a couple of days. Send email to specify URL. This requires modifying AVH code to directly generate CSV rather than XML, which will take some time. 20 - Problems with repeatable query results on different countries in login simple query. 22 - 28 - Simple query for restricted login should return MoU fields. Extended query should return MoU fields by default, with option to add or remove individual fields (as in current implementation) and checkboxes to request All fields or Default (MoU) fields. 31 - Provide data for how many queries are processed, how many records returned in total and from each herbarium. Initially just make available a monthly text log file containing date stamp, the query, user ID if restricted query, and number of records returned for each herbarium. Nice web pages presenting and histogramming this data to be added as part of future work. - Implement different warning and hard limits for restricted and public users
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