The 3rd NFDI4Objects Community Meeting will take place from September 30 to October 2, 2025 at the German Mining-Museum (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum) in Bochum, Germany. The event will be a great opportunity to exchange ideas on progress and challenges within the consortium and to network with …
We’re excited to introduce a powerful new feature in ArboDat+: the interactive map for entering and verifying location data. Here’s what’s new: This update makes location entry faster, more accurate, and much more intuitive — no more manual cross-checking between maps and data tables!
We’re excited to let you know that ArboDat+ now supports importing data from your old MS Access files. This means you will be able to browse for your existing .mdb files, upload them, and continue working with your data in the new, OS-independent system.
To make things easier and more consistent, ArboDat+ now uses a central list of standard vocabulary instead of free text. That means, while in the old program, you could type anything freely, you’ll now select from a predefined list. If some of your old entries don’t match the new list, no problem – you can add your local attribute labels to the central Dante Server via a simple “add”-button, where they will be reviewed manually before being added.
This way, your data stays complete, becomes consistent and interoperable with other data sets, while still allowing flexibility for your unique needs.
A quick update on a topic relevant for many long-term users: the migration of already existing data into the new system. As requested, we’ve been working intensively over the past months to ensure that existing data can smoothly and accurately be transferred to the new …
Software development is progressing: this year, we revised the database schema, implemented the backend, and set up the API and the Frontend. We also pushed general thesauri on centralized Dante Servers. Finally, we addressed and will finish the import functionality for old data in early …
The front end is the primary interface through which users interact with the program, including data entry and other communication. To ensure maximum accessibility, the front end is currently being developed as a web application, allowing it to be run in any modern browser on a wide range of operating systems.
One significant change in the updated version of ArboDat+ is the storage of specific lists at a central place (server), ensuring uniformity in terms of plant taxonomy, method names, coordinate reference system names, site-type designations and others. However, it is important to note that in many instances, users will retain the flexibility to add individual items, too.
The API serves as a crucial link between the front-end and the database, forming the backbone of the future web application. It facilitates seamless communication between the front-end and the back-end database, enabling efficient handling of user requests, data processing and database management. Choosing Java …
We are happy to announce that the novel database schema has been created. The new database is based on a relational model, just as it was before, but uses PostgreSQL instead of MS-Access. Most of the data fields remained. To facilitate data publication and export …
Even though it was quiet for a long time, the project team continued to work on ArboDat+ the whole time. This includes analysing the survey that took place at the end of last year. This has now been published on Zenodo:
Mennenga, M., Knappe, C., Bittmann, F., & Renz, M. (2024). Arbodat+ Survey. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10829738
In the coming days, we will add some of the points for discussion in the forum, where we hope for a lively participation.
If you also want to use ArboDat in your own language, this is generally not a problem. However, we need your help! Help us translate the entries and the front end. We have collected all the important lists online for this purpose. You can also …