Materials for Online Flora Information Systems

As agreed at the Adelaide workshop, the schema documentation from the Flora of Australia Online was used as a starting point. The files have been updated and are appended here:


 * Online Flora XML Schema
 * Online Flora XML Sample File
 * [[Media:Fl_australia_eflora sdd sample_text Sept 2008.doc|Online Flora MSWord Sample File]] (228kb)


 * [[Media:E-flora_interchange_in_progress_Sept_2008.doc|Online Flora MSWord Interchange Elements (draft)]] (100kb)
 * (see tables below - automatically generated by http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~sdouglas/table.cgi)

Discussion of Online Flora Schema

 * Online Flora XML Schema 20081128 - this is an alternative version of schema for the taxonType element based on the version from the Adelaide workshop (Online Flora XML Schema). This version is provided for discussion - it is not complete and there are a number of issues that still need to be resolved (for both these schema).  Changes from the previous version include (but are not limited to):
 * reducing complex types definitions to those that are reused
 * addition of a paragraphs type to permit nesting of multiple paragraphs and tables (tables is not fully developed)
 * addition of paragraph type - this includes elements for font and taxonomic names, but perhaps should also include elements for other linkage types (e.g., literature citations, specimen citations)
 * Moving elements from within TaxonDescription where the use of choice model may not be appropriate e.g., the name element has been moved to make it required.
 * Started the introduction of id attribute to some of the elements to permit referencing/linking to specific content within an xml instance
 * adopted upper camel case for elements, lower camel case for attributes

Interchange elements (from word file above)
Follow up in September 2008 to E-flora workshop

held in Adelaide, Dec. 2007

Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD) in progress

Taxonomic Names and Concepts TCS