Plugins for Floralink

Plugin library for using using taxon specific and taxon reference data with Floralink Core. These contain only descriptive information. For database plugins, see @floralink/databases.

• Plugins for Floralink
• General usage
• Plugins in this library
  • Taxon reference data
  • Taxon specific data
  • Occurrence data
• Developing a local database plugin
  • File structure
  • index.js

General usage

You can add the plugins to your project by using the @floralink/plugins npm package:

$ npm install @floralink/plugins

Then, in your project:

import * as floralink from "@floralink/core";
import { mytaxonspecificplugin } from "@floralink/plugins";

floralink.initializePlugin(mytaxonspecificplugin);

// now floralink can access information on how to operate the data

Plugins in this library

Taxon reference data

Name	Description	Data origin	Data source
germansl	Taxon reference for plants, mosses, algae and lichens in Germany	local	GermanSL v1.5.1, a taxon reference list for occurrence databases in Germany

Taxon specific data

Name	Description	Data origin	Data source
ellenberg	Ellenberg indicator values (1991)	local	GermanSL v1.5.1
fukarekhenker	N, F and T status described by Fukarek & Henker (2006)	local	GermanSL v1.5.1
rotelistemv (experimental)	Red list classifications for vascular plants in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany	local	GermanSL v1.5.1

Occurrence data

Name	Data origin	Data source
werbeo	API	Flora-MV (through WerBeo API)

Developing a local database plugin

You can derive a JSON database for your plugin from a CSV table by using Floralink Generator. Look at the plugins in this library for examples.

Source databases to use with Floralink need to have a taxonomic reference. Floralink uses GermanSL (v1.5.1) and doesn't support other taxonomic reference databases (yet).

File structure

Basic file structure of a local database plugin:

/generation
  /source
  |  |__database.csv
  |  |__LICENSE
  |__mappings.js
database.json
index.js
README.md

index.js

Example index.js (Ellenberg plugin):

export default {
  // plugin reference
  pluginType: "taxonspecific",
  name: "ellenberg",
  version: "1991-1",
  taxonReferencePlugin: {
    name: "germansl",
    version: "1.5.1",
  },
  title: "Ökologische Zeigerwerte",
  description:
    "Das ökologische Verhalten gegenüber einem bestimmten Standortfaktor [...]",
  sources: {
    // bibliographic information for citation
    // keys: primary, secondary, description
    primary: {
      citation:
        "Ellenberg, H. (1991): Zeigerwerte der Gefäßpflanzen (ohne Rubus). [...]",
      citationShort: "Ellenberg 1991",
    },
    // ...
  },
  // applicable filters for calculating statistics
  filters: {
    // the key acts as the id of the filter
    "group-s-only": {
      title: "nur Samenpflanzen",
      filterKey: "group",
      filterValue: "S",
      onlyMatching: true,
      default: true,
    },
    // ...
  },
  // properties/fields of the data
  properties: {
    indicatorL: {
      // key of property in JSON file on taxon object
      dataKey: "indicatorL",
      // display title of property
      title: "Lichtzahl",
      // short title for graphs and summary tables
      titleShort: "L",
      // description of the property
      description:
        "Vorkommen in Beziehung zur relativen Beleuchtungsstärke [...]",
      // scale of measure, specifies which statistics to calculate
      scaleOfMeasure: "ordinal",
      // enumeration of the possible value (to force the order)
      enum: [...sharedEnum, ...sharedEnumNominal],
      // object of possible values
      possibleValues: {
        ...sharedPossibleValues,
        1: {
          title: "Tiefschattenpflanze",
          description: "noch bei weniger als 1 % [...]",
        },
        // ...
      },
    },
    //...
  },
};