Heaton, A., Rycroft, S., Baker, E., Bouton, K., Scott, B., Koureas, D., Livermore, L., Roberts, D., Smith, V. 2013 Assisted restructure of web content for paper-based presentation: a look at workflows and data representations. TDWG, Biodiversity Information Standards. Grand Hotel Mediterraneo Florence, Italy, 27 Oct - 1 Nov., 2013.

1. Assisted restructure of web content for
paper-based presentation: a look at work flows
and data representations
Alice Heaton, Simon Rycroft, Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton, Ben Scott,
Koureas Dimitris, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Vince Smith

2. This presentation is about:
Creating paper based publications from web content;
Restructuring data;
Looking at what happens to data at implementation
level;
Understanding the implications for data storage and
processing.

3. Web interface
Import
(Excel file,
GBIF, etc.)
Content
author
Hyperlinks
Faceted
Search
Visitor

4. Scratchpads Visitor
Page
Hyperlink
Page
Hyperlink
Page
Location
Specimen
Taxon
Term
Taxonomic
Name
Content
Type
Location
Reference
Content Author
Content
Type

5. Paper publication
? ? ? ? ? ?
Location
Specimen
Taxon
Term
Taxonomic
Name
Content
Type
Node
Reference
Scratchpads Maintainer
Content
Type

6. Enter
Publication
Specific
Data
Abstract,
Acknowledgement,
etc.
Select
existing
data
Taxon description,
Holotype,
etc.
Automatic import
of related
content
Bibliographic
references,
images,
etc.
Publication

7. Select
Taxon
Description
Fields
Add
new
Treatment
Select
Holotype
Select
Taxon
Select
Paratype
Override
Taxon
name

10. Scratchpads
Maintainer
Automated
Process
(Scratchpads)
User
Interface
XSD, XML,
Jason, etc.
Scratchpads
Data
(Web/Default
representation)
Scratchpads
Data
(Publication
representation)
Online transmission
Scratchpads
Data
(External
service
representation)
REST, SOAP,
etc.
External
service

11. Entity
Entities
Field
Relational
Data
Field
Relational
Data
Relational
Data
Field
Relational
Data

12. Entities
Restructure through
User Interface
Entities

13. Mapping
Schema
Array
XSD Schema
Definition
Schema Array:
Internal structure to define how
to map entities and entity fields
to XML tags
Schema
Array
Final
Schema
Array

14. Final
schema
array
Restructed
entities
Process
Publication
XML

15. Horizontal flows
Schema
array
Select
existing
data
Automatic import
of related
content
Enter
Publication
Specific
Data
Restructured
entities
Process
Publication
XML

16. Vertical flows
Entity
Process
Entity
Final
schema
array
PHP
arrays
Schema
array
Entity
Fields
Relational
data
XML
XSD
Schema
Schema
array
mapping

17. Data constantly changes form;
This process happens both horizontally and
vertically;
Data flows are more important than data
structures;
In that context model abstraction and modularity
is more important than data storage;
Restructure and export code is sensitive to
change: It need a robust architecture.

18. Thank you ! Any questions ?
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