Academic ServicesFireflower provides a web-based data management system for use by students, teachers and researchers in universities, colleges and high schools, and all others who need to collect, integrate and manage multi-disciplinary, multi-media data. CapabilitiesFireflower can be used to develop an ever-growing data resource for an individual's work, or be used at an enterprise level regardless of the disciplines concerned. Within a group, a team leader can grant levels of authority for team members to edit, access and process data, and can develop the team's own terminology and glossaries. An individual's work can be copied, and extracted from that of a group if he or she leaves the group. Fireflower can collect data to follow the spread and changes in migrations, epidemics, ideas, dress codes, languages, biodiversity or climates. It can collect data to follow the development of a flower or an animal organ and can integrate changing morphological, anatomical, biochemical, physiological and cytological data with this in time. It can be used in disciplines from micro to macro, from nanochemistry to the performing arts. Fireflower provides taxonomy facilities that can be used to classify anything that can be classified (e.g. plants, animals, viruses, musicians, music, musical instruments, actors, books and castles). Parts of a taxonomy can be extracted, worked on, and merged back into the mother taxonomy seamlessly. New nodes in a taxonomy can be added at any position, even at the roots and tips of an existing taxonomy, without damage to the system. Classification is integrated with sites and times, and the system can be searched to find, for example, if and how, the biodiversity at a site has changed over time. Case Study |