BIOTA 2   The Biodiversity Database Manager 

URL: 

http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/Biota

Source of information: 

website & feedback to questionnaire 

Last updated:   

July 2003 

Contact information 

Name:  

Robert K. Colwell 

Address: 

75 North Eagleville Road, 

Unit 3043 University of Connecticut, Storrs, 

  CT 

06269 3043, 

USA 

Phone:  

860 486 4395 

Fax:  

860 486 6364 

Email:  

colwell@uconn.edu 

Availability and cost  Can be ordered from 

http://www.sinauer.com/

BiotaApp (single user, stand alone) for Microsoft Windows or 

Apple MacOS: $200 BiotaApp upgrade pricing (for registered 

users of BiotaApp 1.X): $150.00. Biota4D (multi user, 

client/server, requires 

4D Server

4

) for Windows or MacOS 

servers: $300.00 (individuals), $600  (institutions), incl. 2 client 

connections. Biota4D upgrade pricing not yet decided. 

Specialization by 

All taxa 

taxonomic group 

Computing platform  Microsoft Windows XP/NT/ME/2000/98 and Apple Macintosh  

OS X or OS 9 

Limitations to 

No limitations documented. Standalone single user application 

scalability 

BiotaApp upgradable to multi user client server application 

Biota4D (needs 4D Server)

. 

Data Files have a 64 GB limit, 

which corresponds to several hundred million records. Images are 

in external image files linked to thumbnails in the Biota Data File.

Data import 

Conversion of existing (plain text) data sets with "Import Editor", 

capabilities and/or 

"batch mode" image import and linking tool (guided by a log file 

limitations 

that the user prepares, or that is automatically created by batch 

export of images or image links from another Biota Data File) 

Data export 

Delimited plain text files, HTML, image files, NEXUS 

capabilities and/or 

Locality by Taxon matrices for any set of records or taxa at any 

limitations 

level 

Size and distribution  Not applicable (not yet released); beta v. 24 used productively by 

of user base 

50 beta testers in 10 countries. 

Source of user 

CD ROM, 880 pages, fully illustrated and hyperlinked 

documentation 

Database model 

Will be updated to reflect Biota 2 s new tables 

documentation 

4

 See footnote 3 for pricing. 

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