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GCE Taxonomic Database:
A researcher-managed web
database application
Wade Sheldon
GCE Information Manager
Primary Design Goals
 Create
database structure to store general
taxonomic information (plants, animals,
fungi)
 Create web application to generate dynamic
species lists from database
 Include links to ancillary information
(habitats, voucher specimen, site
occurrences, photos, data sets, pubs)
Hidden IM Agenda
 Develop
framework to allow investigators
to maintain database & web pages
themselves
 Goals:
 Engage researchers in interactive IM project (inreach)

Relieve IM of additional web maintenance tasks
Components
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Relational database (SQL Server)
 3 dynamic web pages
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List catalog page (with custom list selector form)
Species list page
Taxonomic details page with links to ancillary info
Web management tables in database
 Forms-based UI for entering/editing taxonomic
info and managing web lists and page captions
(Access Data Project)
Database
Schema
(on WWW)
Catalog
Page
Species
List
Page
Species
Detail
Page