1. An online authoring and publishing platform for field guides and identification tools
- Author
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Hadedorn, Gregor, Weber, Gisela, Plank, Andreas, Giurgiu, Mircea, Homodi, Andrei, Veja, Cornelia, Schmidt, Gerd, Mihnev, Pencho, Roujinov, Manol, Triebel, Dagmar, Morris, Robert A., Zelazny, Bernhard, van Spronsen, Edwin, Schalk, Peter, Kitti, Christian, Brandner, Robert, Martellos, Stefano, Nimis, Pier Luigi, P. L. Nimis and R. Vignes Lebbe (eds.), Hagedorn, G., Weber, G., Plank, A., Giurgiu, M., Homodi, A., Veja, C., Schmidt, G., Mihnev, P., Roujinov, M., Triebel, D., Morris, R. A., Zelazny, B., Van Spronsen, E., Schalk, P., Kittl, C. h., Brandner, R., Martellos, Stefano, and Nimis, Pierluigi
- Subjects
fields guides ,flora ,fauna ,identification tools ,social software ,DELTA ,SDD ,MediaWiki ,agile development ,fields guide ,field guides ,identification tool - Abstract
Various implementation approaches are available for digital field guides and identification tools that are created for the web and mobile devices. The architecture of the “biowikifarm” publishing platform and some technical and social advantages of a document- and author-centric approach based on the MediaWiki open source software over custom-developed, database driven software are presented.
- Published
- 2010