jflheureux / tombiovis

The FSC Identikit for creating online keys and resources for biological identification (previously called Tom.bio ID Visualisation Framework).

The FSC Identikit

The FSC Identikit is a framework for creating online biological identification keys and related resources. The genesis of the project was the Field Studies Council's (FSC) Tomorrow's Biodiversity project (funded by Esmée Fairbairn 2013-2017 inclusive). Esmée Fairbairn funded a further year's development of the Identikit (covering 2018) to facilitate rolling the work forward into the HLF-funded FSC BioLinks project which runs from 2018 to 2022 inclusive. The Field Studies Council is a UK-based environmental education charity. We are committed to moving FSC Identikit forward as an open-source collaborative venture.

(Prior to March 2018, The FSC Identikit was referred to as 'The Tom.bio ID Visualisation Framework', or variations thereof.)

Documentation

All documentation for this project is found in the 'documentation' sub-folder and includes the following:

• Quickstart Guide
• Getting started (more detailed than the Quickstart Guide)
• Building a knowledge-base (essential guide for knowledge-base developers)
• Deploying your resources (how to make your ID resources available to other people)
• Character scoring (only for those who want more detail on Identikit's mechanism for scoring with multi-access keys)
• Notes for coders (only for programmers who want to extend or contribute to the Identikit)

An interactive guide to the Identikit is available here: http://www.fscbiodiversity.uk/identikit