scholarly journals Notebook: Customizable web forms for recording observations

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olli Raitio ◽  
Aino Juslén ◽  
Päivi Sirkiä ◽  
Aleksi Lehikoinen ◽  
Marko Tähtinen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Location ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Flying Squirrel ◽  
Object Structure ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Event Based ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Sampling Event ◽  
Taxon Identification ◽  
Biodiversity Information

’Notebook’ is one of the primary data management systems of the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility (FinBIF). It is a web solution for recording opportunistic as well as sampling-event-based species observations. It is being used for systematic monitoring schemes, various citizen science projects, and platforms for species enthusiasts. Notebook's main software component is LajiForm, which is the engine that renders a given JSON Schema into a web form. LajiForm is a separate, reusable module that is fully independent from other FinBIF systems. Notebook as a whole, includes other features embedded in FinBIF, such as linking users' geographical data to observation documents, spreadsheet document importing and form templates. We will demonstrate how the Notebook system works as a whole and also focus on LajiForm's technical aspects. Fig. 1 All Notebook forms use FinBIF's ontological schema in JSON Schema format. Rendering user-friendly web forms based on a single schema is a difficult task, because the web form should be asking meaningful questions, instead of just rendering the schema fields according to the form description. We want to present questions in an interactive style. For instance, after drawing a geographical location on a map for a potential flying squirrel nesting tree, we would ask "did you see droppings at the nest?", and answering "yes" would update the document to include a flying squirrel taxon identification with fields "breeding" and "record basis" filled in but not rendered to the form. A simpler form engine without a user interface (UI) customization layer would just render the "taxon", "breeding" and "record basis" fields and the user would have no understanding why there are so many fields to answer and how they relate to their work or study. Some forms are complex, e.g., for experienced biology enthusiasts who need a form that is advanced, customizable, and compact. Some forms are simple, e.g., for elementary school children. To tackle these challenges, LajiForm uses a separate schema for UI that allows everything from simple customization like: defining widgets for fields (e.g., date widgets, taxon autocomplete widget, map widget), changing field order or customizing field labels; to more complex customization like transforming the schema object structure, defining conditions when certain fields are shown or if updating a field should have an effect on other fields. defining widgets for fields (e.g., date widgets, taxon autocomplete widget, map widget), changing field order or customizing field labels; to more complex customization like transforming the schema object structure, defining conditions when certain fields are shown or if updating a field should have an effect on other fields. All the functionality is split into a loosely coupled collection of components, which can be either used as standalone components or composed together in order to achieve more advanced customization. The programming philosophy has drawn inspiration from functional programming, which has been helpful in writing isolated, composable functionality. LajiForm is written with the JavaScript framework React. LajiForm is built on top of react-jsonschema-form (RJSF), which is an open source JSON schema web form library provided by Mozilla. RJSF handles only simple customization, but it is very flexible in design and allows us to build extensions with features that are more powerful. Some features and design proposals were submitted to Mozilla – FinBIF is the largest code contributor to RJSF outside of Mozilla, with a dozen pull requests merged.

scholarly journals The Antarctic Biodiversity Portal, an Online Ecosystem for Linking, Integrating and Disseminating Antarctic Biodiversity Information

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Ming Gan ◽  
Maxime Sweetlove ◽  
Anton Van de Putte
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Antarctic Species ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
Occurrence Data ◽  
Event Based ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Global Initiatives ◽  
Sampling Event ◽  
Biodiversity Information

The Antarctic Biodiversity portal (biodiversity.aq) is a gateway to a wide variety of Antarctic biodiversity information and tools. Launched in 2005 as the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) - Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN, scarmarbin.be) and the Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS, marinespecies.org/rams/), the system has grown in scope from purely marine to include terrestrial information. Biodiversity.aq is a SCAR product, currently supported by Belspo (Belgian Science Policy) as one of the Belgian contributions to the European Lifewatch-European Research Infrastructure Consortium (Lifewatch-ERIC). The goal of Lifewatch is to provide access to: distributed observatories/sensor networks; interoperable databases, existing (data-)networks, using accepted standards; high performance computing (HPC) and grid power, including the use of the state-of-the-art of cloud and big data paradigm technologies; software and tools for visualization, analysis and modeling. Here we provide an overview of the most recent advances in the biodiversity.aq online ecosystem, a number of use cases as well as an overview of future directions. Some of the most notable components are: The Register of Antarctic Species (RAS, ras.biodiversity.aq) is a component of the Lifewatch Taxonomic Backbone and provides an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine and terrestrial species in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. It serves as a reference guide for users to interpret taxonomic literature, as valid names and other names in use are both provided. Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT, ipt.biodiversity.aq) allows disseminating Antarctic biodiversity data into global initiatives such as the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS, obis.org) as Antarctic node of OBIS (Ant-OBIS, also formerly known as SCAR-MarBIN) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, gbif.org) as Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (AntaBIF). Data that can be made available include metadata, species checklists, species occurrence data and more recently, sampling event-based data. Data from these international portals can be accessed through data.biodiversity.aq. The Register of Antarctic Species (RAS, ras.biodiversity.aq) is a component of the Lifewatch Taxonomic Backbone and provides an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine and terrestrial species in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. It serves as a reference guide for users to interpret taxonomic literature, as valid names and other names in use are both provided. Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT, ipt.biodiversity.aq) allows disseminating Antarctic biodiversity data into global initiatives such as the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS, obis.org) as Antarctic node of OBIS (Ant-OBIS, also formerly known as SCAR-MarBIN) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, gbif.org) as Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (AntaBIF). Data that can be made available include metadata, species checklists, species occurrence data and more recently, sampling event-based data. Data from these international portals can be accessed through data.biodiversity.aq. Through SCAR, Biodiversity.aq builds on an international network of expert that provide expert knowledge on taxonomy, species distribution,and ecology. It provides a strong and tested platform for sharing, integrating, discovering and analysing Antarctic biodiversity information originating from a variety of sources into a distributed system.

scholarly journals The Antarctic Biodiversity Portal, an Online Ecosystem for Linking, Integrating and Disseminating Antarctic Biodiversity Information

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Ming Gan ◽  
Maxime Sweetlove ◽  
Anton Van de Putte
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Antarctic Species ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
Occurrence Data ◽  
Event Based ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Global Initiatives ◽  
Sampling Event ◽  
Biodiversity Information

The Antarctic Biodiversity portal (biodiversity.aq) is a gateway to a wide variety of Antarctic biodiversity information and tools. Launched in 2015 as the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) - Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN, scarmarbin.be) and the Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS, marinespecies.org/rams/), the system has grown in scope from purely marine to include terrestrial information. Biodiversity.aq is a SCAR product, currently supported by Belspo (Belgian Science Policy) as one of the Belgian contributions to the European Lifewatch-European Research Infrastructure Consortium (Lifewatch-ERIC). The goal of Lifewatch is to provide access to: distributed observatories/sensor networks; interoperable databases, existing (data-)networks, using accepted standards; high performance computing (HPC) and grid power, including the use of the state-of-the-art of cloud and big data paradigm technologies; software and tools for visualization, analysis and modeling. Here we provide an overview of the most recent advances in the biodiversity.aq online ecosystem, a number of use cases as well as an overview of future directions. Some of the most notable components are: The Register of Antarctic Species (RAS, ras.biodiversity.aq) is a component of the Lifewatch Taxonomic Backbone and provides an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine and terrestrial species in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. It serves as a reference guide for users to interpret taxonomic literature, as valid names and other names in use are both provided. Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT, ipt.biodiversity.aq) allows disseminating Antarctic biodiversity data into global initiatives such as the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS, obis.org) as Antarctic node of OBIS (Ant-OBIS, also formerly known as SCAR-MarBIN) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, gbif.org) as Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (AntaBIF). Data that can be made available include metadata, species checklists, species occurrence data and more recently, sampling event-based data. Data from these international portals can be accessed through data.biodiversity.aq. The Register of Antarctic Species (RAS, ras.biodiversity.aq) is a component of the Lifewatch Taxonomic Backbone and provides an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine and terrestrial species in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. It serves as a reference guide for users to interpret taxonomic literature, as valid names and other names in use are both provided. Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT, ipt.biodiversity.aq) allows disseminating Antarctic biodiversity data into global initiatives such as the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS, obis.org) as Antarctic node of OBIS (Ant-OBIS, also formerly known as SCAR-MarBIN) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, gbif.org) as Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (AntaBIF). Data that can be made available include metadata, species checklists, species occurrence data and more recently, sampling event-based data. Data from these international portals can be accessed through data.biodiversity.aq. Through SCAR, Biodiversity.aq builds on an international network of expert that provide expert knowledge on taxonomy, species distribution,and ecology. It provides a strong and tested platform for sharing, integrating, discovering and analysing Antarctic biodiversity information originating from a variety of sources into a distributed system.

Modular event-based systems

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUDGER FIEGE ◽  
GERO MÜHL ◽  
FELIX C. GÄRTNER
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Formal Specification ◽  
Modular Design ◽  
Coupled Systems ◽  
Loosely Coupled Systems ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Event System ◽  
Event Based

Event-based systems are developed and used to integrate components in loosely coupled systems. Research and product development have focused so far on efficiency issues but neglected methodological support to build such systems. In this article, the modular design and implementation of an event system is presented which supports scopes and event mappings, two new and powerful structuring methods that facilitate engineering and coordination of components in event-based systems. We give a formal specification of scopes and event mappings within a trace-based formalism adapted from temporal logic. This is complemented by a comprehensive introduction to the event-based style, its benefits and requirements.

WOAD

2012 ◽  
pp. 127-147
Author(s):  
Federico Cabitza ◽  
Carla Simone
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Electronic Document ◽  
High Level Architecture ◽  
Formal Expression ◽  
Major Teaching Hospital ◽  
Major Teaching ◽  
High Level ◽  
Event Based ◽  
User Friendly

In this article, we present WOAD, a framework that was inspired and partly validated within a 2-year observational case study at a major teaching hospital. We present the WOAD framework by stating its main and motivating rationales, outlining its high-level architecture and then introducing its denotational language, LWOAD. We propose LWOAD to support users of an electronic document system in declaratively expressing, specifying and implementing content- and event-based mechanisms that fulfill coordinative requirements and make users aware of relevant conditions. Our focus addresses (a) the user-friendly and yet formal expression of local coordinative practices based on the work context; (b) the promotion of awareness of both these conventions and the context to enable actors to quickly respond; (c) the full deployment of coordination-oriented and context-aware functionalities into legacy electronic document systems. We give examples of LWOAD mechanisms taken from the case study and discuss their impact from the EUD perspective.

scholarly journals Spasial Autokorelasi Sebaran Demam Berdarah Dengue Di Kecamatan Ambarawa

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kartika Dian Pertiwi ◽  
Ita Puji Lestari
Keyword(s):  
Health Center ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Hemorrhagic Fever ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Mosquito Nets ◽  
Ceiling Temperature ◽  
Global Positioning ◽  
Breeding Grounds

Incidence of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) in Ambarawa increased significantly during 20118-2019. In 2018 there were 19 DHF events, and in 2019 there were 124 DHF events. This study was conducted to determine the spatial distribution of dengue spread and environmental conditions associated with breeding grounds, resting places, installations, holes in walls, ceiling, temperature, humidity, air pressure, the use of mosquito nets in 2019.This research is a descriptive study with ecological studies. The population of this study was all DHF events in the working area of Ambarawa Health Center from 2018-2019 with the criteria to have a clear address with a total of 130 DHF events. This study uses secondary data containing DHF event data from Ambarawa Health Center and population data in the working area of Ambarawa Health Center in 2018-2019 and primary data related to the geographical location of DHF events. As a research instrument used is a questionnaire table, Environmental observation sheet, Global Positioning System (GPS), thermogygrometer. The results obtained from the pattern of the spread of DHF events in the working area of Ambarawa Health Center in 2018 were patterned spread with NNI 1.4 in 2018 and grouped (grouped) with NNI 0,000258 in 2019. The extent of the distribution of DHF events in Ambarawa was from in 2018-2019 the more widespread with the discovery of dengue patients in all kelurahan in 2019 after not found dengue patients in Baran and Bejalen villages in 2018. Dissemination of DHF information in Ambarawa from 2018-2019 can be found in Kupang District, spreading DHF patterned distribution (disbanded) in 2018 and in groups (in groups) in 2019 with the value of the NNI getting smaller.

scholarly journals Event Based Approach for Web Services Composition

2014 ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
A. Vani Vathsala ◽  
Hrushikesha Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Event Driven ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Event Based

The success of the Internet and the ongoing globalization led to a demand for new solutions to meet the requirements for ITsystems. The paradigm of service-oriented and event-driven architecture with fine grained and loosely coupled services tries to cope with those needs. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event Driven Architecture (EDA) are two acknowledged architectures for the development of business applications and information systems, which have evolved separately over the years. Today both architectures are acknowledged, but their synergy is not. There are numerous benefits of having an architecture that supports coexistence between operations and events, and composition of services based on operation invocation and event triggering. As part of our ongoing research work, we have tried to analyze in this paper, the basic design of Event based systems, issues that have to be addressed when event based approach is used for composing and coordinating web services. Then we have specified the techniques available that handle these issues, and gave a comparative study on these techniques. Finally we have attempted to sort out the unhandled/ partially handled issues that could be addressed as part of our research.

An Event-Based Middleware for the Management of Choreographed Services

2012 ◽  
pp. 567-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Ardissono ◽  
Roberto Furnari ◽  
Giovanna Petrone ◽  
Marino Segnan
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Integration Model ◽  
Composite Service ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Service Execution ◽  
Execution Model ◽  
Flexible Management ◽  
Event Based ◽  
Development And Management

A critical issue in the choreographed services development is the conciliation of interaction protocol mismatches that affect the cooperation among the services to be integrated in the composite service. This chapter attempts to answer such an issue by presenting a mediation framework that supports the development and management of choreographed services by offering a loosely-coupled integration model and a flexible management of protocol mismatches. Such features are obtained by introducing (i) an action-based representation of the functions offered by a Web service; (ii) an explicit management of the state of the choreographed service, which determines the operations to be carried out in order to contribute to the service completion; (iii) an event-driven Web service execution model, which makes it possible to abandon the direct invocation of Web service operations in favour of an autonomous execution of actions, based on the available context information.

Flexibility and coordination in event-based, loosely coupled, distributed systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Silvestre ◽  
S. Rossetto ◽  
N. Rodriguez ◽  
J.-P. Briot
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Systems ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Event Based

scholarly journals Assessing the Primary Data Hosted by the Spanish Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. e55144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Otegui ◽  
Arturo H. Ariño ◽  
María A. Encinas ◽  
Francisco Pando
Keyword(s):  
Primary Data ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Biodiversity Information

Achieving consumers’ attention through emerging technologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Waheed ◽  
Yang Jianhua
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Mobile Marketing ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between e-marketing (eM) and consumers’ buying behavior particularly exploratory buying behavior tendencies (EBBT) with moderating effect of a gender in the context of China. Design/methodology/approach Structural equation modeling using SPSS/AMOS was majorly applied to ascertain the relationship and hypotheses testing. First, the correlation of eM toward EBBT is examined using five factors: internet marketing (IM), e-mail marketing (EMa), intranet marketing (IMa), extranet marketing (EM), and mobile marketing (MM). Second, the relationship of each dimension of the eM model is determined autonomously to ensure the importance of such emerging technologies in marketing communications. Third, the effect of gender as a moderator is measured. To this end, primary data were collected through random distribution of the questionnaires among 1,600 consumers particularly students of the universities between February 2016 and August 2016 within North China. Findings The findings revealed that eM has a significant correlation on consumers’ EBBT. The comprehensive analysis of each factor of eM, i.e., IM, EMa, IMa, EM, and MM is positively correlated to EBBT. The present study revealed that gender did not moderate among the relationships of eM and EBBT. Additionally, study furnishes practical directions on how managers can utilize such emerging and revolutionary technologies in marketing activities to probe, understand, and reinforce consumers’ buying behavior. Research limitations/implications The research has limitations related to geographical location and sample size which thus limits the widespread generalization. Practical implications This study affirmed that organizations must engage the consumers using such technologies that are more likely acceptable by consumers in the present customer-oriented and digital era. The marketers must engage consumers the way they wish to be engaged by developing appropriate promotional strategies. The study provides possible implications both theoretical and managerial along with a contribution to the literature of eM and consumers’ buying behavior. Social implications Understanding the emerging technologies may furnish valuable insights for individuals to work well within Chinese SMEs. Originality/value The topic of eM has acknowledged as an evolving concept which is gaining an intense concern of both academician and practitioners. Therefore, more research mainly empirical work is still needed to probe the insights of eM across the globe. This study attempts to fulfill such need with empirical evidence together with an in-depth examination of eM determinants, collectively and autonomously.

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