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'$RCSfile: README,v $'

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'$Date: 2006-09-11 22:03:55 $'

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'$Date: 2006-09-11 22:03:55 $'

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VEGBANK: Vegatation Plots Database and Archival System

Version: @version@

Send feedback and bugs to: vegbank-dev@ecoinformatics.org http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org

Contributors: Robert K. Peet Michael D. Jennings Dennis Grossman Marilyn D. Walker Mark Anderson (anderson@nceas.ucsb.edu) Gabriel Farrell (farrell@nceas.ucsb.edu) John Harris (harris@nceas.ucsb.edu) Micheal Lee (mikelee@email.unc.edu) Chad Berkley (berkley@nceas.ucsb.edu)

VegBank is the vegetation plot database of the Ecological Society of America's Panel on Vegetation Classification. VegBank consists of three modules that contain (1) the actual plot records, (2) vegetation types recognized in the U.S. National Vegetation Classification and other vegetation types submitted by users, and (3) all plant taxa recognized by ITIS/USDA as well as all other plant taxa recorded in plot records. Vegetation records, community types and plant taxa may be submitted to VegBank and may be subsequently searched, viewed, annotated, revised, interpreted, downloaded, and cited.

Installation

See INSTALL file in this directory.

PROPERTIES FILES:

./build.properties - edit for your environment

DATABASE SETUP:

** For more information, see the INSTALL file.

Vegbank has a single database for Plots, Plant Taxonomy and Plant Community. It also includes information about users of the VegBank system and their personal datasets.

Initializing PostgresSQL:

Install PostgresSQL on the system ...

Associate a file with the database ( e.g /home/username/pgdata )

initdb [databasefile]

Start database ( with debuging output )

postmaster -d2 -i -D databasefile

Create the database users as follows:

In an account that has rights to the database ( e.g. postgres )

createuser datauser createuser [ your unix username ] createuser qa

Build the databases

Some of the sql is auto generated using an ant task. In the vegclass directory run:

ant createdb

Edit the pg_hba.conf file so that connections may be made to the database

add the following:

local all trust host all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust

host all ip of RMI server etc. 255.255.255.255 trust

Major Known Bugs or Feature Requests (see http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org)

If you discover a bug please report it, either by email (above) or by using our bug tracking system (http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org). There is a list of currently unimplemented features in Bugzilla that we are working on for the next release.

Legalese

This software is copyrighted by The Regents of the University of California and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and licensed under the GNU GPL; see the 'LICENSE' file for details.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant Nos. DBI-9905838 and DBI-0213794. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). See lib/apache-licence.txt for details.

The Struts workflow extension is also included see lib/workflow-extension-licence.txt for details.