Information system for maintaining a database of geobotanical descriptions while studying a landscape

Abstract

Nowadays, there is a need in developing a common information space for providing a centralized data storage of geobotanical descriptions while studying a landscape and custom software for collecting, storing and processing semi-structured data. In the paper, the results of information system development for maintaining a geobotanical database are discussed. The database was developed via the bottom-up design approach and ER-model (Entity-Relationship). The analysis results of geobotanical data obtained from field studies and the database structure of geobotanical descriptions while studying a landscape are considered. At the moment, the information system for maintaining the geobotanical database is applied by the Institute of Steppe, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences.