Best Practice Handbook
From reBiND Documentation
Contents
Introduction
- about reBiND
- how to use this book
System Installation and Administration
- Installation
- Installing BioCASe Provider Software
- Installing eXist
- Installing reBiND Framework
- Configuring eXist/reBiND Framework
- Administration
- Using a custom data format (?)
- Documentation of Correction Modules
- Writing Custom Correction Modules
- Using a different metadata format
Data Archiving
- Workflow
- Data Preparation
- Prepare the content for ABCD mapping: resolve abbreviations, add units, concatenate atomised scientific name, additional information from data documentation, add metadata, denormalise
- ABCD Mapping (see BioCASE documentation) plus additional examples
- XML Export from BioCASE provider software (mention other like Pentaho Kettle?)
- Import to reBiND Framework
- Import from XML file system
- Connect to BioCASE and upload XML
- Validation and Corrections
- Validation
- Running the automated correction
- Default correction (selecting existing correction module)
- Modifiy corrections
- Add additional modules
- Reviewing the XML file
- Entering metadata
- Publishing the dataset
- Data Preparation
Data Access and Search
- Search via reBiND web interface
- Search via Biodiversity networks (GBIF)
Case Studies
- Case studies with single data sets from different providers
- General observations
Data Rescue (outdated software and hardware)
- software
- Identifying Unknown File Formats
- Conversion for selected file formats
- DataPerfect
- Paradox
- dBase
- Harvard Graphics
- Word 3 for DOS
- Excel to Access database
- Document new data formats for others
- hardware
- 3.5" Floppies
- 5.25 " Floppies
supporting data preparation
- Software Products
- Data Splitter
- Character Encoding Correcter
- Stand-alone Correction Manager
- supporting procedures
Technical Background
- eXist
- XQuery
- ABCD
- EML
