DiversityDescriptions Quiz (Artenquiz)

DiversityDescriptions_Quiz (DD_Quiz) is a clone of DiversityDescriptions 3.00.10. July 17th, 2014 that is intended to work with the Web-Framework Django to have a quiz for species descriptions in German. This project is presently under development. Additional tables see below.

Suggested citation is that of DiversityDescriptions 3.00.10: G. Hagedorn, A. Plank, A. Link, G. Rambold & D. Triebel (2014). DiversityDescriptions information model (version 3.00.10). http://www.diversityworkbench.net/Portal/DescriptionsModel_v3.00.10.

Hover the mouse over a table to jump to the documentation (linked to DiversityDescriptions 3.00.10. July 17th, 2014).

Documentation

Database

The following conventions and abbreviations have been used in the tables: Columns of primary key:underlined. Categorical data are presented to a user in the quiz therefore some tables (in gray) are not used for the quiz.

Table: Contribution

Multiple contributors may contribute in different roles

Column	Data type	Description
id	int	Database-internal ID of this record (primary key)
object_id	int	Reference (foreign key) to a BaseEntity
contributor_id	int	Reference (foreign key) to a contributor
role	nvarchar (255)	one of 'creator', 'contributor', 'editor', 'photographer'
timestamp	datetime	Time stamp of the contribution

Table: Contributor

People contibuting to a work. Roles are recorded in Contribution

Column	Data type	Description
id	int	Database-internal ID of this record (primary key)
avatar_uri	nvarchar (255)	Optional URI to an image representing the user (default: NULL)
email	nvarchar (255)	User’s email address (default: NULL)
linked_agent_uri	nvarchar (255)	Linking to agents managed in an external component (default: NULL)
real_name	nvarchar (255)	Optional name the user gave (full name) (default: NULL)
web_pseudonym	nvarchar (255)	Optional alternative name to display publicly on the web (default: NULL)

Note: in the Quiz all users/contributors are requested to input their full name.

Table: ResourceWatchedTime

The time a resource thumb was watched (=mouse hover)

Column	Data type	Description
id	int	Database-internal ID of this record (primary key)
resource_id	int	Reference (foreign key) to a resource
contributor_id	int	Reference (foreign key) to a contributor
watched_time	int	watched time in milliseconds

Table: TaxonQuiz

User’s correctly answered taxa.

unique together = ('project_id', 'contributor_id', 'taxon_id', 'scope_id')

Column	Data type	Description
id	int	Database-internal ID of this record (primary key)
taxon_id	int	Reference (foreign kex) to a taxon that has been answerd correctly
project_id	int	Reference (foreign key) to the project
contributor_id	int	Reference (foreign key) to a contributor
scope_id	int	Reference to a scope (default: 0)
points	int	Points through scoring characters, already 3 added if success (default: 0)
sucess	tinyint	Was the taxon answered correctly by the user? (default: 0)

New projects

Steps to enter data for a new project: Create a project (table: Project)

• Project.code is important: it is used as URL part and within the Django application as internal project identifier it should never be changed
• eventually create or associate scopes, like “female”, “male” (table: OtherScope, Project_AvailableScope)

Eventually create the taxa (table: TaxonProxy)

• associate taxa to the project (tables: TaxonSet, TaxonSet_Taxon)
• associate images of taxa (tables: Resource, ResourceVariant, BaseEntity.specific_rights_text should contain the corresponding picture’s author name like: “© Author Name”). A set of maximum of 16 thumbs will be displayed

  resource variants as ReourceVariant_Enum.code "tiny_sample" (=thumb 75×75px) and "best_quality" (max 500×500px displayed) should have corresponding urls in ResourceVariant.url

• eventually associate geographic area (table: GeographicAreaProxy, GeographicArea_Taxon)

Create character and character states (table Descriptor, CategoricalState), character tree (tables: DescriptorTree, DescriptorTreeNode)

• associate images to characters or character states (tables: Resource, ResourceVariant, BaseEntity.specific_rights_text should contain the corresponding picture’s author name like: “© Author Name”), size of images with maximal height 40px

Finally make a project publicly available: set the Project‘s tag (table: Tag)

• tag "Artenquiz" means it is a quiz
• tag "Public" means it will be publically available
• tag "Identification" make the project availabel for identification (URL: …/mobile_bestimmung/)