Biogeographic Synthesis Compositions

Biogeographic Synthesis Compositions are made up of Biogeographic Analysis Packages. The Compositions present a logical collection of analyses, scientific findings, and other information about a geographic region or issue. Eventually, the Compositions will be driven semantically to bring in particular BAPs based on their characteristics. In the short term, we are configuring Compositions manually by linking specific Packages to each Composition.

Taxa Information Registry

The Taxa Information Registry is a component of the Biogeographic Information System that provides routes to various lists of species of interest in our analytical work. This ScienceBase collection documents the routes and serves as a directory of the species lists or sources of taxa names of interest in our work. Each registered source is run through a set of living information assembly processes that consult various sources of related information to assemble data that we put behind our API for our own use and use by others. These are "living processes" in that they are repeated through time to produce new versions of information, and those changes in available information then drive other aspects of our information...

Spatial Feature Registry

The Biogeographic Characterization Branch (BCB) has conducted a number of activities over the last several years that have resulted in databases of named, significant spatial features that are important as a foundation for other databases and in analytical processes. We've discovered that all of these activities involve some of the same type of work in quality controls and data prep and result in a simple, common schema for the fundamental data attributes. In an effort to bring all of this work together and get maximum benefit for our systems as a whole, we are establishing this foundational ScienceBase collection to house the information. We use "Spatial Feature" for this collection because each of the items...

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