Results

On this page, the results of the project will be documented throughout the project.

ABCD Documentation

Previously the documentation for the ABCD elements was spread out at various places. These were the outdated TDWG ABCD Wiki, the documentation elements within the XSD Schema files and an internal database used by the BGBM. One of the first project steps was to consolidate these various sources and create a new and coherent place for the ABCD documentation.

Software

Schema Parser

To consolidate the various existing ABCD documentation, the XSD Schema files were parsed to extract the technical documentation as well as other information about the individual elements. This was done using a generic XSD Schema Parser.

Short Name Generator

Previously the only way to identify an ABCD concept was the XPath of the corresponding element in the ABCD XML. This lead to sometimes quite long paths. To better reference the individual concepts, unique and meaningful short names have been created, by which the concepts will be addressed in the future. These short names were generated by a specialized software, which is documented here: Short Name Generator.