Bloom Clock/Organization

Project

Orientation, Guidelines, Discussion

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}}

Included templates

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).

Text-based Clocks

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.