This is the BIE (Biodiversity Information Explorer) front end - merge of old ala-bie and bie-plugin.

THE BIE handles general search duties and serves taxon/species pages. For more details on the architecture see BIE index

The bie-plugin uses ISO-639 language codes, particularly ISO-639-3, drawn from http:https://www.sil.org/iso639-3/ and the AIATSIS codes, drawn from https://aiatsis.gov.au/

It is possible to blacklist sources of external information that is either incorrect or not relevant. Blacklisting is performed by pattern matching and can be configured by URLs that give a specific blacklist. Blacklists are configured as a map of possible blacklists against the information in a document. For example:

external:
  blacklist: file:https:///data/ala-bie/config/blacklist.json

An example blacklist file can be found here. It contains metadata descibing the intent of the blacklist and a list of entries that will cause the blacklist to trigger.

Each blacklist entry can trigger on some combination of:

• source The URL of the original source of the data.
• name The supplied name of taxon.
• title The title of the article

Currently, the blacklist is only used with the Encyclopedia of Life external source.

It is possible to "pull" common names with special status into their own section and have them displayed in a special way. To do this, use the following configuration settings:

• vernacularName.pull.active Set to true for a pull display (false by default)
• vernacularName.pull.categories A comma-separated list of status values that will cause the names to be pulled (empty by default)
• vernacularName.pull.label The label for the pull section in the names tab (Special Common Names by default)
• vernacularName.pull.labelDetail The detail to put into the label title (empty by default)
• vernacularName.pull.showHeader List these names in the header, just below the preferred common name (false by default)
• vernacularName.pull.showLanguage Show the language of the common name (false by default)

See the releases page for this repository.