PaleoTax Information System for Palaeontologists
URL:
www.paleotax.de
Source of information:
website & feedback to questionnaire
Last updated:
July 2003
Originally, PaleoTax is a tool for biodiversity research rather than collection
management software. A module for collection specific tasks is about to be released.
Contact
Name:
Hannes Loeser
information
Address:
Estacion Regional del Noroeste,
Instituto
de
Geologia,
UNAM
Apartado
Postal
1039,
Hermosillo,
Sonora,
Mexico
83000
Email:
info@paleotax.de
Availability and
Free download from http://www.paleotax.de/
cost
Specialization by
Any group of fossil and recent organisms, preferred animals
taxonomic group
(because in accordeance with the IRZN)
Computing
Microsoft Windows
platform
Limitations to
No limitations documented, Hierarchical Relational Data Bank
scalability
System
HDB
Data import
Access, text files, dbf, other formats have to be converted to dbf in
capabilities and/or
advance; presently limited to literature, but generally not difficult to
limitations
extend options
Data export
ASCII, RTF, HTML
capabilities and/or
limitations
Size and
Germany; ca.10 installations
distribution of user worldwide (at least Germany, France, Russia, Japan, Mexico, USA)
base
number of installations unknown, ca. 30 downloads per month
Source of user
German: Loser, H. (2001) PaleoTax Datenbanksystem zur
documentation
Erfassung, Verarbeitung und Ausgabe taxonomischer,
geographischer und stratigraphischer Daten in der Palaontologie.
Version 2.0. Handbuch und Referenz. 136 Seiten; Dresden
(CPress).
English: Loser, H. 2003. PaleoTax. Database management system
to record, process, analyse and output taxonomic, geographic and
stratigraphic data in palaeontology. Publicaciones Ocasionales, 3:
148 pp.; Hermosillo (UNAM).
Database model
http://www.paleotax.de/pvn17.htm
documentation
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