Descriptor of conservation

The System AleloVegetal has a reference table called Conservation descriptor found in options or tab "Tables" module "Conservation".

The characteristics of conservation locus are recorded in the format of descriptors. As the locus can be a cold chamber, greenhouse, state park, ....., among others, the amount and nature of its conservation will vary according to the kind of locus. Here we face the problem of different facilities for each locus, which would require frequent maintenance software to represent the descriptors of each new locus. A parameterized framework was sought for representing descriptors. This structure is organized into three classes: "descriptor conservation", "encoding of the descriptor" and "value of the descriptor".

Exemplifying the locus cold chamber, an occurrence of the first class of the structure descriptor conservation, is the "temperature conservation of access" which has the following attributes and values:

Descriptor "Temperature Conservation"

Attributes and values​​: =

1. description of the descriptor: conservation of the access Temperature
   
2. data type: numeric
   
3. maximum amount of characters: 5
   
4. number format (edit mask): 999.9 oC
   
5. minimum: - 20
   
6. maximum - 10
   
7. status code is used: no
   
8. observation of the descriptor for storage:
   
9. descriptor order: 1
   
10. number of valid descriptor: 3650 days