2. System descriptions 

BIOLINK V1.5 

URL: 

http://www.ento.csiro.au/biolink/software.html

Source of information: 

web site & feedback to questionnaire  

Last updated:   

July 2003 

Contact information 

Name:  

Dr. Steve Shattuck 

Address: 

CSIRO Entomology  

P.O. Box 1700  

Canberra  ACT  2601 , Australia 

Phone:  

+61  2  6246 4272  

Fax:   

+61  2  6426 4264 

Email:  

ento biolink@csiro.au 

Availability and cost  Freely available from publisher (send email to 

biolink@ento.csiro.au

). Free of cost (full client server system 

needs SQL Server 2000 licensing

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).  

Specialization by 

All taxa 

taxonomic group 

Computing platform  Microsoft Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, client software has been 

successfully installed on an Apple Macintosh G3 running PC Soft 

Windows 

Limitations to 

No limitations documented, database management system is 

scalability 

Microsoft SQL Server

Data import 

Microsoft SQL Server import capabilities, supporting imports 

capabilities and/or 

from various formats such as tab delimited text files, Excel 

limitations 

spreadsheets, Access, and DBF databases as well as all ODBC 

compliant data sources. The Biolink Import Wizard allows to map 

source attributes to BioLink attributes.. 

Data export 

Raw data export via user defined report module 

capabilities and/or 

Query Tool results can be directly exported to delimited text, 

limitations 

XML (two formats), Excel, Word, Access and RTF

.

Size and distribution  Approximately 250 active users in 65 countries. 

of user base 

Source of user 

Full documentation (online help as well as 140 page User Guide) 

documentation 

supplied with the software 

Database model 

http://www.ento.csiro.au/biolink/development.html

documentation 

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 Microsoft licensing conditions and prices are highly variable according to client, country, and versions.  

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