Biodiversity Access

A cluster of components that allows uniform access over different biodiversity repositories. This document outlines their design rationale, key features, and high-level architecture as well as the options for their deployment.

Overview

The goal of this subsystem is to offer an uniform access over different biodiversity repositories through a simple API. The services have dynamically extensible architectures, i.e. rely on independently developed plugins to adapt their APIs to a variety of back-ends within or outside the system. When connected to remote data sources, the services may be widely replicated and their replicas know how to leverage the Enabling Services to scale horizontally to the capacity of the remote back-ends.