Red Data e-Book of Bulgaria

Project description: The Red Data Book of Bulgaria is a collection of scientific articles, describing VUlnerable, ENdangered, CRitically endangered and EXtinct species of plants, fungi & animals and natural habitats as well. It has an English and Bulgarian edition, a web site and offline |DVD) version. It contains ~1250 maps, ~1150 photographs and ~1000 illustrations.

Commissioned by: Ministry of Environment and Waters MOEW

Implemented by: Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research IBER @ the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences BAS

Activities performed

• Designed a system to semi-automate the conversion

Technologies used

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Compiled HTML Help (DVD version)
• .NET Framework/C# (parallelization, scripting)
• Altova XML Engine (XML to HTML conversion (XSLT))