EDIT

 **Welcome to the EDIT WP5 development wiki** 

_All information on this wiki is work in progress. For released documents please see our main site:_

http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu/

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# EDIT Developer Wiki

## Latest News

* Minutes from the [[DeveloperMeeting2007]] in Berlin 6th-7th of September are now available at [[FirstDeveloperMeetingMinutes]]

* IstcForum (for ISTC Members only).

## Developer Help & Best Practices

* [[DeveloperTools]] - subversion and trac guidelines for EDIT

* [[BestPractices]] - best practices for UML modelling, coding and documenting your work

* [[DeliverableTemplates]] - (word) template to write EDIT deliverables

* DevelopingWithDrupal

* [[OntologyModelling]] - general remarks and links to OWL

* [[JavaApplicationFrameworks]] - comparison of and links to different application frameworks for java

## Platform Development

### Platform design

* [[PlatformArchitecture]] - Guidelines for services (REST vs SOAP), authentication, synchronisation, public search interfaces and other best practices for component developments

* [[CommonDataModel]] - workspace for the integrated data model for the platform

* [[PlatformUseCases]] - Taxonomic use cases for the platform

* [[PlatformRequirements]] - Requirements for the entire platform

* [[Wp6PlatformIntegration]] - Text describing the integration of WP6 development plans into the platform

### Platform components

* [[PlatformComponents]] - An overview of the planned components and how they can interact

* [[BDTracker]] - The Biodiversity Service & Application Tracker

* [[CommunityStore]] - A central CDM store for taxonomic or ATBI site communities

* [[ComunicationTools]] - Collaborative Druapl based tools for working and building a taxonomic or ATBI site community

* [[TaxonomicEditor]] - a java desktop editor

* [[GeographicComponents]] - Platform components for taxonomists dealing with geographic visualisation, geocoding and predictive modelling tools

* [[LiteratureComponent]] - ViTaL, the virtual library aggregating bibliographic metadata and providing an OpenURL link server

* [[ExpertsDatabase]] - An online experts database in development

* SecurityComponents - Shibboleth, EDIT user registry and single sign on

## Workflow Modelling

* [[RevisionaryModels]]

* [[AtbiModels]]

## Terminology

* [[TaxonomicGlossary]]

* [[CybertaxonomicTools]]

## Internal

* [[CertificationGoals]]

* [[BgbmDocumentRepository]]  - A non public page (for BGBM members only)

## Registration

You will need an EDIT account to log into this site. Please register first with the Central Authorisation Service for EDIT or until that is available with http://www.BDTracker.net

If you have an EDIT account and need write access to the wiki or the ticket system, please inform  m.doering@bgbm.org Markus Döring who will provide you with the appropiate access rights.

## Wiki Usage

As all Wiki pages, this page is editable, this means that you can

modify the contents of this page simply by using your

web-browser. Simply click on the "Edit this page" link at the bottom

of the page. WikiFormatting will give you a detailed description of

available Wiki formatting commands.

Starting Points

* TracGuide --  Built-in Documentation

* WikiFormatting -- the wiki language

* TitleIndex -- a complete list of local wiki pages