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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