Salicicola Resources

Salicicola Undocumented. Login [yet simulation, not yet installed]

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It has intended as an entry point to 'members only' sections and working drafts: based on the credential entered, users can receive different lists of resources. However, as this is only a prototype version, authentication and authorization aren't implemented, hence any entered values would yield the same results.

However, at least for PBCI database [as of 2010-02-24, not yet even uploaded to web server], entering reasonable user's ID might be needed for some pages to function (I'm going to restrict modifying or entering data for 'registered' users: everybody else may still use database in read-only or demo mode.)

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Salicicola online databases and other not referenced resources

PBCI Database (prototype in MySQL & XML)
Yet only works at local machine, prototype version to be installed at webserver in a nearest future. For now, it's only snapshots and not all links may function as expected (e.g., always show the same table).

Invasive plants reports = http://salicicola.com/plants/invasive/reports/
It contains links to copies of submitted reports (Akebia, Lespedeza from MSSF) and to project pages not open for public: They allows to fill NHESP form online, save intermediate results, update them later, and print them out only when ready. (NHESP claims that signed reports should be submitted in printed form: their website provide fillable and very nice PDF files, but you would not be able to save your work, other than as a printed copy; therefore from my perspective they are hardly usable).

Invasive plants records = http://salicicola.com/plants/invasive/records/
This is a form to add new records to our salicicola database. It's not user friendly, and had been designed primarily for testing XForms and newer database architectural approach. I have somewhere an older version (not necessarily for invasive plants) but perhaps it is even less friendly. (These forms were assumed to be used only internally.) Technically, these data can be used to produce online maps (see below) but the necessary links may not be yet provided.

Salicicola mapping service
It has not been updated for a long time and therefore the existed samples pages, for instance for invasive plants, seems not working properly anymore. Technically, I have designed them using three different approaches:

Pure HTML (CSS) version
It will produce viewable dot maps for predefined and manually calibrated blank map in JPG format for relatively small areas (e.g., topo maps). Besides easternmost Massachusetts (which is available for public views from Salix atrocinerea pages), I already have maps for BHR, including Fowl Meadow, Fells Reservation, but maybe not yet calibrate all of them properly. Mapping is not very precise and only intended for the web preview.
Dot maps using external mapping service.
An interface to Goggle and other mapping services provided by ACME Mapper and ACME GeoRSS Map Viewer written by Jef Poskanzer. This should work very precisely for any area throughout the world, but it's reasonable for only limited number of dots (say, less than twenty).
SVG area maps for town level
It works already for Eastern Mass, and yet in draft version for the entire Mass. I am not going to implement at the webserver SVG/JPG converter and therefore such maps may not be viewable with every browser (at least they should work at Firefox which probably supply SVG viewer by default). I've only made a conversion to JPG for Salix atrocinerea articles.