Description

The Taxon Manager (TaxMan) serves taxonomic hypermedia abstractions It provides clients three abstractions: specimen, taxon, and taxonomy. Specimens are an arbitrary StructBase objects that are tagged by the TaxMan as being specimens. Taxa are contentless objects that have three endsets: specimens, that contains zero or more specimen objects ids; subtaxa, that contains zero or more taxon object ids; and, supertaxon, that contains at most one taxon id. Taxonomies are objects that have one endset named taxa that contains zero or more taxon object ids.

Documentation

• TaxMan Programmer's Guide scheduled for release late June 1997
• TaxMan Reference Guide scheduled for release late June 1997
  

Software Releases

Current release: none.

Scheduled next release: TaxMan-1.0.0 [1997.06.16]

Change log: