2018-05-02: Infrastructure and new fields

DINA development news describe what has been done within the project during the last 2-4 weeks, and what is going to be done next.

Happened during last sprint

Much of the sprint was spent on infrastructure work: making the system more robust and easy to expand further. Also support for editing taxonomy data was added, but this is not yet visible for users.

New fields were added to the registration form for:

• Type specimen data
• Events (death, observation and origin event data)
• Catalogue card creation data
• Acquisitions

With these in place, the registration form and underlying database have nearly all the fields needed for mammal catalogue card registration. A bit later these will be organized and improved to make registration process easier.

We have also been working on migrating mammal data to the system for testing purposes. Most of the data has been imported, partly in the correct fields and partly as read-only data (though not currently visible on the public testing version), which allows us to go deeper into connecting it to the DINA data model.

Next we are going to

Next sprint will not focus on developing new features for users, but on

• Further improving infrastructure, data model and database
• Designing how users and agents (people and organizations with names) are handled.

After this, we will develop user/agent handling, and start to design and develop more advanced search features.