[Environmental] question on plone system :: Pollinator Conservation Library

[David Siedband]

On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Tom wrote:

> David - is your PCDL built of the same system, or something else?

The Pollinator Conservation Digital Library is an archetypes-based  
product with content-types for

base species
plant species
pollinator species
person
resource (article / reference)
observation (a resource contains one or more observations linking  
plant-pollinator relationships.)

source is available here
http://code.watershedportal.net/PCDL/

This product is an example of what I feel is the need for a base set  
of environmental content types, that can then be customized to meet  
the use cases of specific groups.  In this case, the metadata needs  
of the NAPPC (North American Pollinator Protection Campaign) were  
similar to what we had in our Watershed Portals product, so we took  
that as a starting point and made the modifications necessary to  
model the plant/pollinator/reference interactions.

Ideally, I would like to have a set of content-types and templates  
for the entities that many of us are working with such as: projects,  
resources, people, organizations, species, locations, events, etc.   
These could then be adapted to make custom types for projects with  
more specific metadata needs.  In January I put EnviroBaseTypes into  
the collective, which is a start on this idea.
http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/EnviroBaseTypes/trunk
At the moment, it is still quite simple, and there is still a  
reasonable amount of Watershed-specific stuff that needs to be done  
in a more generic way.

The good news is that later this month, Christian Schneider and  
myself are having a sprint to clean up this EnviroBaseTypes and  
package it up with a nice set of templates.

Also on the horizon:
     modifying this product to use AT Vocabulary Manager, with new  
KSS-based widgets
     adding support for Maps through Florian's Maps Product or PrimaGIS.

At some point I expect to have something with enough momentum that  
people start using these base-types as a starting point for their  
projects and participating in the development of EnviroBaseTypes.  If  
you'd like to be involved in this effort, let me know.

cheers
--
David




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