IDigBio Virtual Appliances

iDigBio Virtual Appliance

Biology collection management software tools typically depends upon multiple software packages, such as databases, Web servers, image manipulation libraries, among others. This complexity makes it difficult for end users to install and deploy these applications in use cases including training, technology evaluation, and management of small collections. To remove the burden on installing multiple software dependencies and facilitating the deployment of bio-collections software, the iDigBio IT team works with the community to packages and makes available pre-configured virtual appliances. Appliances leverage virtualization technologies to provide a user with a turnkey solution to run collections software (on their desktops, local servers, or cloud servers); users simply download the appliance and run it without the need to worry about installing and configure additional software.

Below is a list of iDigBio virtual appliances. These appliances are currently aimed at technology evaluation and training use cases, and to gather feedback from the community

- Specify Appliance
- Arthropod Easy Capture Appliance
- Georeferencing Calculator Appliance

iDigBio welcomes proposals from the community to create virtual appliances. To submit a proposal, please visit https://www.idigbio.org/content/appliance-proposal

To run the appliance, you need VMware player (Windows and Linux) or VirtualBox(Windows, Linux and Mac). Below is the links for download.

http://www.vmware.com/support/download-player

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Specify Appliance

Packaged software

- MySQL
- Java Runtime Environment
- Specify 6
- Specify Thinclient
- VNCServer
- GNOME
- Configuration Console

Appliance download link

http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~xetron/Downloads/Specify_v2.zip

Instructions

Download from above link and run it through VMWare player. Then, IP address and port number is shonw on VMWare player. Finally you enter the address on your browser address bar. For Specify thick clinet, you can also either web-browser or vnc-viewer.

Arthropod Easy Capture

Packaged software

- Apache server
- MySQL
- PHP
- Configuration Console
- Arthropod Easy Capture

Arthropod Easy Capture Appliance

For VMware

http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~xetron/Downloads/ArthropodEasyCapture.zip

For VirtualBox

http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~xetron/Downloads/ArthropodEasyCapture-VirtualBox.zip

Instructions

Download from above link and run it through VMWare player. Then, IP address and port number is shonw on VMWare player. Finally you enter the address on your browser address bar.

Georeferencing Calculator

Packaged software

- Georeferencing Calculator
- Apache server
- Confuration Console

Donwload links

http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~xetron/Downloads/GeoreferencingCalculator.zip

Instructions

Download from above link and run it through VMWare player. Then, IP address and port number is shonw on VMWare player. Finally you enter the address on your browser address bar.

Appliances under development

- Optical Character Recognition(OCR) appliance