BRAHMS 

URL: 

http://www.brahms.co.uk

Source of information: 

website & feedback to questionnaire 

Last updated:   

July 2003 

Contact 

Name:  

The BRAHMS Project 

information 

Address: 

Department of Plant Sciences 

  University 

of 

Oxford 

  OXFORD, 

OX1 

3RB 

  UK 

Email:  

info@brahms.co.uk 

Availability and 

Freely available from the publisher by download from 

cost 

http://storage.plants.ox.ac.uk/brahms/

, registration required. Free of 

charge ( institutions and projects that use BRAHMS routinely for 

herbarium management or longer term research work   and have the 

resources   are encouraged to adopt a BRAHMS Support 

Agreement ). 

Specialization by  Herbarium collections 

taxonomic group 

Computing 

Microsoft Windows 95 or later 

platform 

Limitations to 

No limitations documented, database system is Visual FoxPro 8 

scalability 

Data import 

Visual FoxPro 8 import capabilities. 

capabilities 

and/or 

limitations 

Data export 

Visual FoxPro 8 export capabilities. 

capabilities 

and/or 

limitations 

Size and 

BRAHMS has herbarium based project activities in the Europe 

distribution of 

(Baltic states, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and the UK); Africa 

user base 

(Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya); Asia (Bangladesh, 

Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaya, Philippines, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore, 

Thailand) and the Americas (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, 

Panama, Puerto Rico, USA). Regional networks are being established 

in the Netherlands, South East Asia and Amazonian Brazil. 

Source of user 

http://storage.plants.ox.ac.uk/brahms/manual/manual.html 

documentation 

Online help available 

Database model 

No information available 

documentation 

Miscellaneous 

Many projects use BRAHMS for managing taxon related information 

(names and related data such as images, descriptions, and other facts).

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