Morph·D·Base

Morph·D·Base has been developed to serve scientific research and education. It provides a platform for storing the detailed documentation of all material, methods, procedures, and concepts applied, together with the specific parameters, values, techniques, and instruments used during morphological data production. In other words, it's purpose is to provide a publicly available resource for recording and documenting morphological metadata. Moreover, it is also a repository for different types of media files that can be uploaded in order to serve as support and empirical substantiation of the results of morphological investigations. Our long-term perspective with Morph·D·Base is to provide an instrument that will enable a highly formalized and standardized way of generating morphological descriptions using a morphological ontology that will be based on the web ontology language (OWL - http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/). This, however, represents a project that is still in development.

Morph·D·Base 之构建旨在服务于科学研究与教育领域。该平台旨在存储所有应用材料、方法、程序及概念的详细文档，包括形态数据生产过程中的特定参数、数值、技术及仪器。换言之，其宗旨在于提供一个可供公众使用的资源，以记录和编制形态元数据。此外，Morph·D·Base 还是一个存储不同类型媒体文件的仓库，这些文件可被上传以作为形态学研究结果的辅助与实证支持。我们对 Morph·D·Base 的长期愿景是提供一种高度形式化和标准化的工具，用于生成形态描述，该工具将基于网络本体语言（OWL - http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/）构建的形态学本体。然而，这仍是一个处于开发阶段的项目。