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

Creating paper based publications from web content;

Restructuring data;

Looking at what happens to data at implementationlevel;

Understanding the implications for data storage andprocessing.

This presentation is about:

Contentauthor

Visitor

Web interface

Import (Excel file,GBIF, etc.)

Hyperlinks

FacetedSearch

Taxon Specimen Location

Content Author

Scratchpads Visitor

PagePage Page

Term ContentType

ContentType

Hyperlink Hyperlink

TaxonomicName

LocationReference

Taxon Specimen Location

Scratchpads Maintainer

Term ContentType

ContentType

TaxonomicName

NodeReference

Paper publication

? ? ? ? ? ?

EnterPublication

SpecificData

Selectexisting

data

Abstract, Acknowledgement,

etc.

Taxon description,Holotype,

etc.

Automatic importof relatedcontent

Publication

Bibliographicreferences,

images,etc.

SelectTaxon

SelectTaxon

DescriptionFields

OverrideTaxonname

SelectHolotype

SelectParatype

Addnew

Treatment

UserInterface

XSD, XML,Jason, etc.

REST, SOAP,etc.

ScratchpadsData

(Externalservice

representation)

ScratchpadsData

(Publicationrepresentation)

ScratchpadsData

(Web/Defaultrepresentation)

Externalservice

AutomatedProcess

(Scratchpads)

ScratchpadsMaintainer Online transmission

Entities

Entity

Field

RelationalData

RelationalData

RelationalData

RelationalData

Field Field

Entities Restructure throughUser Interface Entities

XSD SchemaDefinition

SchemaArray

MappingSchema

Array

FinalSchema

Array

Schema Array:Internal structure to define howto map entities and entity fieldsto XML tags

Restructedentities

Finalschemaarray

Process PublicationXML

Restructuredentities

Process PublicationXML

EnterPublication

SpecificData

Selectexisting

data

Automatic importof relatedcontent

Schemaarray

Horizontal flows

Relationaldata

Fields

Entity

Entity

Entity

Process

PHP arrays

XML

Vertical flows

XSDSchema

Schemaarray

Schemaarray

mapping

Finalschema

array

Restructure and export code is sensitive to change: It need a robust architecture.

In that context model abstraction and modularityis more important than data storage;

Data constantly changes form;

This process happens both horizontally and vertically;

Data flows are more important than datastructures;

Thank you ! Any questions ?

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