The PANDORA taxonomic database system
URL:
http://193.62.154.29/rbge/web/science/pandora.jsp
Source of information:
website, feedback to questionnaire, and in house expertise
Last updated:
July 2003
Pandora is a taxonomic rather than a collection management software, but it includes
detailed data capture for specimens.
Contact
Name:
Dr. Richard Pankhurst
information
Address: R.B.G.
Edinburgh
Inverleith
Row
Edinburgh
United
Kingdom
Email:
R.Pankhurst@rbge.org.uk
Availability and
Freely available, contact Richard Pankhurst
cost
(R.Pankhurst@rbge.org.uk). Download of a 1999 version possible
through:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/biology/
ecology+evolution/software/pandora/
. Free of charge.
Specialization by
Herbarium collections
taxonomic group
Computing
DOS, including DOS boxes in Windows95, NT, OS/2, and various
platform
UNIX flavors (but company supported only under DOS)
Limitations to
No limitations documented, database system is
Advanced
scalability
Revelation
Data import
Import from ASCII text files possible
capabilities and/or
limitations
Data export
ASCII text files, any other user defined format via report programs
capabilities and/or
limitations
Size and
No information. Used in 6 internal database projects at the RBG
distribution of user Edinburgh and for the Euro+Med Plantbase project (Flora Europaea
base
checklist).
Source of user
User documentation (dated 1993) included in the download
documentation
mentioned above (availability).
Database model
No information
documentation
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