Bloom Clock/Organization

Theory
Bloom clocks work by keeping track, over several seasons, of what plants are found blooming at a particular time of year.

The early results are simply the order in which plants bloom.

Later results can be interpreted to yield a system which can match up bloom cycles to periods in the calendar year in different regions.

Project Discussion
Cf. Bloom Clock/Project Discussion

Templates
The bloom clock makes extensive use of templates.

Entry creation templates

 * bcp
 * bcp2

Page creation templates

 * bcp3

Taxa level

 * bcp-u
 * bcp-g
 * bcp-s
 * bcp-v

Navigation

 * bcp-nav
 * bcp-nav2 (currently blank)

Identification characteristics

 * bcp-chars

version tracking
Versions of the Bcp3 templates are tracked using these templates. They are blank, but can be modified to include categories in order to impliment a DPL search for older versions requiring updates. See ../Template versions/ for details.

Categories
Plant log pages use a large number of categories (eventually there could be hundreds of categories on each log).

Main Clock Pages

 * Temperate clocks go by season.
 * Other clocks (wet/dry season, etc.)... we don't have these yet.

User-specific Clock Pages

 * Users who add multiple entries at once may want to consider using personal clock pages to avoid edit conflicts (since it can take a while to sign under all the plants).

Plant Logs

 * Plant logs (pages using the prefix "BCP/") are the eventual target for all data. These pages are also used in a manner similar to templates on the visual based clocks.


 * Plant logs may eventually be placed in hundred of categories, in order to construct the visual clocks.

Visual-based Clocks

 * Regional and seasonal clock pages organized by flower color, plant type, and the time of year a plant blooms. These pages are created using DPL.