A free training workshop to introduce prospective Indicia developers from all biological recording sectors to Indicia tools in order to build interfaces and modules. The workshop will include discussions and training around the Indicia framework, how it is being implemented, issues with shared development and scalability. This will provide information essential for people who want to understand Indicia in depth, either to work on the core product or to develop advanced implementations of Indicia for their own organisation or for others.
Who is the training for?
Places are limited to a maximum of 12 participants who meet the following requirements:
• A basic understanding of PHP, JavaScript and SQL.
• Familiarity with the content of the Instant Indicia tutorials.
• A commitment to contribute to the Indicia open source project.
• Experience of using or developing biodiversity data management tools and software
Course content:
Discussions, presentations and exercises around the following topics:
• Architecture overview for the Indicia warehouse
• Architecture overview and options for recording websites
• Advanced site building in Drupal – including advanced form configuration and customisation, overriding control HTML templates.
• Writing code directly using the Indicia PHP API, including a brief introduction to the controls available.
• Authentication and using the warehouse web services.
• Introduction to the warehouse code (Kohana, MVC)
• An example enhancement for the warehouse core
• Writing a warehouse extension module
• Writing reports
• Distributed development, source control, potential issues, decision-making and mechanisms for maintaining and overview
Tutors:
John van Breda, BiodiverseIT
Jim Bacon, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Further information:
Indicia Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/indicia/
Indicia chat room: http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/indicia
iRecord website: www.brc.ac.uk/iRecord
To book:
Please contact Paula Lightfoot, NBN Trust Data Access Officer, at p.lightfoot@nbn.org.uk
This workshop is funded by Defra through their contract with the NBN Trust for the development of the National Biodiversity Network.