The BIOAPP

What is the BIOAPP ?

The BIOAPP is a web application designed for institutions, researchers, collectivities or individuals who:

• Need to collect data for one or many animal or plant species;
• Want to educate people about one or many species;
• Want to facilitate communication between people sharing a common interest for one or many species.

All this in a stimulating environment where members can easily add detailed observations, share knowledge and insights and learn from a rich and dynamic content.

From the user perspective

• A very user-friendly form for adding observations where data is validated as it is entered.
• Offers a learning opportunity via an easy access to the data and rich content including text, photos, videos, maps, charts and more, all collated and presented in meaningful ways.
• Possibility to subscribe to email notifications, notably when new observations are added for specific species.
• A place to communicate with other people sharing common interests.

Set-up and maintenance

• Easy to setup with little or no html knowledge.
• It can integrate the graphical appearance and content of a preowned website.
• You can modify acces restriction to several parts and features of the web site for all visitors, all members or on a single member level.
• A complete assortment of tools to :
  • Create content and manage it;
  • Facilitate collaboration & communication;
  • Promote and auto-finance your project.

Adaptiveness

• Multiple language support :
  • Site can be either in English, in French or both;
  • When switching languages, you stay on the same page;
  • Automatic language redirection.
• Different projects, different needs :
  • Species categories, environment and observation conditions will reflect your project needs;
  • Feature just one species or as many as you like;
• Graphical appearance :
  • Integrate pages powered by the BIOAPP into your current website;
  • Reuse preowned website content and graphical components.
• Specific content :
  • Easily create new pages right from the administration zone;
  • Upload photos and other files and integrate them to your pages.

System requirements

Standard Linux based web-hosting server with php5 and MySQL support.