Table Name: BaseObject | Description: Each record of each table will have the following data items: |
Table Name: Specimen | Description: Holds information and data indigenous to a particular MorphBank specimen. Based on Darwin Core version 2.0 with one addition (developmentalStage field). Location information, sex and taxonomic information are represented in separate tables; Location, Sex and Taxonomic_Units respectively |
Table Name: Location | Description: Table of valid locations of MorphBank Specimens. Based on part of the Darwin Core, version 2.0 standard. |
Table Name: ImageAnnotation | Description: Annotation location and description. The annotation can be a specific point, area in terms of a rectangle, area in terms of an oval, or area in terms of a circle. An annotation can also be general for the image and lack location. |
Table Name: Image | Description: Table of the image that is being annotated. |
Table Name: View | Description: Table of the image that is being annotated. |
Table Name: PhylogeneticState | Description: Table of the different allowed phylogenetic states referenced by the MorphBank object annotation. |
Table Name: PhylogeneticCharacter | Description: Table of the phylogenetic characters referenced by the MorphBank object annotations. |
Table Name: Publication | Description: Table of the defining publication that authorizes entries into the MorphBank Database. Conforms to the Latex bibliography entries. Taken from “Latex, A document Preparation System, Users Guide & Reference Manual” by Leslie Lamport, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, ISBN 0-201-15790-X, 1986. |
Table Name: ObjectPublication | Description: Table of many to many relationships connectiong a MorphBank object to a publication. |
Table Name: TaxonIdentity | Description: Table of many to many relationships between the specimen and suggested taxonomic identification. |
Table Name: News | Description: Standard Database news table |
Table Name: User | Description: Table of the authorized users of the system. |
Table Name: Group | Description: Table of the groups of users. Users may belong to many groups. |
Table Name: UserGroup | Description: Table of the many to many relationships between the User and Group tables. |
Table Name: Country | Description: Table used as reference for the Countries in Location |
Table Name: Sex | Description: Table used as reference for the sexId in the Specimen table and View table, and also for phylogeneticCharacterSexId in the PhylogeneticCharacter table. |
Table Name: ImagingTechnique | Description: Table used as reference for the imagingTechniqueId in View. |
Table Name: DevelopmentalStage | Description: Table used as reference for the developmentalStageId in View |
Table Name: ContinentOcean | Description: Table used as reference for the oceanContinent value in location. |
Table Name: ViewAngle | Description: Table used as reference for the viewAngle element in View. |
Table Name: SpecimenPart | Description: Table used as reference for the specimenPartId in View |
Table Name: ImagingPreparationTechnique | Description: Table used as reference for the imagingPreperationTechniqueId in view. |