Biowired Network Architecture
There exists three types of components in the BioWired network:
one Coordinator and many DSPs and BW Applications.
The diagram shows the components or entities in the architecture and their relationships. Five nodes are depicted:
Coordinator: This node provides the directory of the data sources and also manages the data format that the Data Description Interface (DDI) uses. The DDI's main function is masking databases with a format established by the Coordinator, bringing the user a unified vision of any kind of Biodiversity data.
DSP01: DSP stands for Data Source Processor, a node that offers data of any kind related to biodiversity. This node has a data source from the Bio domain. This data source is accessed externally through the DDI. A DDI will attend any number of instances of data sources for the same domain.
DSP02: This node has two data sources from the Bio domain, that are attended by the same DDI. There also exists a third data source for the Geo domain, attended by a second DDI. There must exist one DDI for each domain implemented in the DSP.
DSP03: Besides having a data source for the Gen domain, there is an application running at this node, that queries data from the Bio domain.
Application: This last node executes an application that operates with data of the Geo domain.
The arrows represent interaction between nodes. The dashed arrows represent occasional access to the Coordinator. In this case DSP01, DSP02 and DSP03 notify the startup to the Coordinator, and they verify the consistency between each DDI and the structure of the domains that the Coordinator has (i.e. that the masks defined by each DDI match the structure of the corresponding domain).
The stand-alone application is querying the Coordinator
about addresses of data sources of Geo domain that accomplish certain characteristics
of metadata