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Software Bazaar: TaxonWorks
Authors: Matt Yoder, Species File Group, Collaborators Source code: TaxonWorks License: University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License Abstract: Biodiversity scientists deal with "broad" data, i.e. they record, analyze, archive and refine information on many different subjects. Integrating, unifying, and maintaining these data over long periods of time is a major concern. TaxonWorks is a open source web-based workbench that seeks in part to address these challenges. Backed by an endowment we seek to surround the project with a community of developers and like-minded scientists to help it evolve over the long term. Various aspects of the software are specifically designed to encourage and facilitate contributions from new members including unit tests, virtualization, and code generators. Configurable interfaces, cloud-based deployment, JSON serving APIs, and a webpack-based JS app pipeline serve the needs of more advanced developers. TaxonWorks has core data concepts (e.g. specimens, images, matrices, sequences, references) that can be richly annotated and that are semantically extensible. Under development for around 2 years the project is now at the cusp of being more broadly exposed, with the goal to rapidly grow those contributing whether they be developers, bug-reporters, or users requesting and influencing new features.