Central Data Management
Scientific investigators:
(University Jena)
Objectives
The database shall give the platform for storage of results and for exchange of data between groups, also the database has the function to organize and document field work and common resources, such as the Experimental Plots.
Methods
A new information system is being established using IBM?s DB2 as the database backbone. The database as well as the entire information system relies on XML technology, especially schemas. The system outline follows a service-oriented architecture and employs latest web technologies such as AJAX for interactive and intuitive web based graphical user interfaces. The modular outline allows for the integration of additional databases, and data with analysis tools. Interrelations between data sources (data sets as well as external data bases) and analysis tools are modeled and formalized by an ontology, which also comprise an analogy of employed terminology.
BExIS Establishment between 2007 and 2011
A functional prototype of the Biodiversity-Exploratory Information System (BExIS) has been established by Dr. Jens Nieschulze and colleages (group leader Prof. Dr. Ernst-Detlef Schulze), MPI Biogeochemistry Jena. The system is heavily used within the project, mostly by the resources and map functionality but increasingly also by its data management capabilities.
The data base access is limited to project members! data base