An online authoring and publishing platform for field guides and identification tools

Various implementation approaches are available for digital field guides and identification tools that are created for the web and mobile devices. The architecture of the “biowikifarm” publishing platform and some technical and social advantages of a documentand author-centric approach based on the MediaWiki open source software over custom-developed, database driven software are presented. Index Terms — field guides, flora, fauna, identification tools, social software, DELTA, SDD, MediaWiki, agile development. —————————— u ——————————