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III. REVIEW OF TOOL DEVELOPMENT
Antonio Mauro Saraiva (Universidade de São Paulo - Escola Politécnica, Brazil)
Five presentations:
Experts Database (Diogo Krobath)
Darwin Core Extensions and PTN Data entry tool (Etienne Cartolano)
Specify (customized) data entry tool (Leandro Halle Najm)
PTN Portal (Pablo Salvanha and Paulo Venancio Lopez)
PTN Web site (Elizabeth Sellers)
Experts Database
Diogo Krobath (Universidade de São Paulo - Escola Politécnica, Brazil)
The Experts Database helps communication and collaboration and facilitates access to information on
pollinator experts. The database also allows searching and editing (insertion/edit/delete) of experts
information. It was developed using MySQL, PHP and Apache Web Service. The original code
donated by the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force of the United States.
Search criteria include common names, scientific names, geographic location, and area of expertise.
Results include expert personal information, taxonomic expertise, geographic location, and expertise
such as discipline, taxonomic, and geographic scope of their expertise. Experts are divided into two
access levels: publicly accessible, or hidden from the public. There are 4 types of users: expert user,
administrator, and two others. An expert can edit, add, and delete taxonomic items. A live on-line
demonstration of the Experts Database was provided.
Darwin Core Extensions
Etienne Cartolano (Universidade de São Paulo - Escola Politécnica, Brazil)
The schema is interpretable by many providers that already use Darwin Core. Modules cover all types
of interactions and details increase at each module (e.g. at the highest level you can have an interaction
between a bee and a plant). To have more details we have another schema for details of the interaction
such as “Oil Removal.”
IABIN-PTN is working with CRIA, GBIF and FAO on development of 3 schemas: interaction data,
pollination data, and at the same level as the pollination data, we have an environmental measures
schema. You can use only interaction and environmental or you could use the interaction schema and
pollination data; or you could use all three.
The schemas are described in detail on the TDWG web site. The first version is a replication of the
Darwin Core Schema in the Interaction Schema. Interaction schema includes record-level elements,
taxonomic elements, natural history elements and interaction elements. The pollination schema
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