Content

1 Introduction...................................................................................................................... 3 

Limitations to the approach ........................................................................................ 3 

Approach..................................................................................................................... 3 

Outlook ....................................................................................................................... 4 

2 System descriptions ......................................................................................................... 5 

BIOLINK V1.5 ........................................................................................................... 5 

BibMaster.................................................................................................................... 6 

BIOTA   The Biodiversity Database Manager ........................................................... 7 

BIOTA 2   The Biodiversity Database Manager ........................................................ 8 

BIOTICA 4.1 .............................................................................................................. 9 

BRAHMS.................................................................................................................. 10 

Clubtail 1.0   dragonfly database ............................................................................. 11 

DEMUS   museum collection system....................................................................... 12 

FLORIN Information System ................................................................................... 13 

HERBAR .................................................................................................................. 14 

KE Emu   Electronic Museum.................................................................................. 15 

Mandala..................................................................................................................... 16 

Mantis ....................................................................................................................... 17 

Multi MIMSY 2000 .................................................................................................. 18 

PaleoTax   Information System for Palaeontologists............................................... 19 

The PANDORA taxonomic database system ........................................................... 20 

PLabel: Herbarium Label Program........................................................................... 21 

SAMPADA   Natural History Collection Database Software.................................. 22 

SPECIFY 4.0............................................................................................................. 23 

SysTax....................................................................................................................... 24 

TAXIS   Taxonomic Information System ................................................................ 25 

TRACY   A Herbarium Management System.......................................................... 26 

University of California Davis Herbarium Management System............................. 27 

Virtual Herbarium Express ....................................................................................... 28 

3 Limitations of used database management systems....................................................... 29 

Appendices........................................................................................................................ 31 

A) Example questionnaire (BioLink)............................................................................ 31 

B) Responses in alphabetical order (internal use only) ................................................ 33 

BIOLINK V1.5 ......................................................................................................... 33 

BIOTA   The Biodiversity Database Manager ......................................................... 34 

BIOTICA 4.1 ............................................................................................................ 35 

BRAHMS.................................................................................................................. 36 

Clubtail 1.0   dragonfly database ............................................................................. 36 

KE Emu   Electronic Museum.................................................................................. 37 

Mandala..................................................................................................................... 39 

Mantis ....................................................................................................................... 41 

PaleoTax   Information System for Palaeontologists ............................................... 42 

The PANDORA taxonomic database system ........................................................... 42 

Sampada.................................................................................................................... 43 

Univ. of California Davis Herbarium Management System..................................... 44 

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