The Software Reference Library is an experimental top-level system collection in ScienceBase designed to provide an alternative organization to software assets cataloged in ScienceBase. It was inspired by the development of the Biogeographic Information System and is a virtual component of that framework. The experimental aspect of this for ScienceBase is the overall flattening of the hierarchical system, which has become entirely too complex over time. The Software Reference Library houses items that describe software. In general one of the primary functions of these items is to provide direction to source code that may exist on USGS infrastructure (e.g., myUSGS BitBucket Server) and/or in a third party repository...
The Data Reference Library is an experimental top-level system collection in ScienceBase designed to provide an alternative organization to data assets cataloged in ScienceBase. It was inspired by the development of the Biogeographic Information System and is a virtual component of that framework. The experimental aspect of this for ScienceBase is the overall flattening of the hierarchical system, which has become entirely too complex over time. The Data Reference Library houses data items that are either native to the ScienceBase Repository or metadata items that point to third party data services from other repositories.
The Research Reference Library is an experimental top-level system collection in ScienceBase designed to provide an alternative organization to data assets cataloged in ScienceBase. It was inspired by the development of the Biogeographic Information System and is a virtual component of that framework. The experimental aspect of this for ScienceBase is the overall flattening of the hierarchical system, which has become entirely too complex over time. The Research Reference Library houses research references; generally, scientific papers and other information assets. In general citation records point to and use authoritative identifiers like DOIs and contain information directly from those sources and cached in...
This collection contains logical groupings of data and information assets that are assembled/curated to answer particular questions or provide an application for using and working within the Biogeographic Information System. The collections here are logical packages of biogeographic data assets that we assemble in order to tell particular stories, build mapping applications, and present information together in ways that work toward a purpose. The collections are intended to be dynamically interfaced with via the ScienceBase Application Programming Interface (API) where they are called up by an application that interprets contents in a particular way to present functionality to a user in a mapping interface or some...
