University of California Davis Herbarium Management System 

URL: 

http://herbarium.ucdavis.edu/database.html

Source of information: 

website & feedback to questionnaire 

Last updated:   

July 2003 

Contact 

Name:  

Director of the Herbarium 

information 

Address: 

Section of Plant Biology, 

Univ. of California, Davis, Davis,  

  CA 

95616 

Email:  

herbarium@ucdavis.edu

Availability and 

Freely available for download from 

cost 

http://herbarium.ucdavis.edu/download.html

. Free of charge. 

Specialization by 

Herbarium collections 

taxonomic group 

Computing 

Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 

platform 

Limitations to 

No limitations documented, database system is 

Microsoft Access 

scalability 

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 or 

Microsoft Access 2000

Data import 

Microsoft Access import capabilities 

capabilities and/or 

limitations 

Data export 

None provided in application. Microsoft Access export capabilities 

capabilities and/or 

limitations 

Size and 

Not recorded 

distribution of user 

base 

Source of user 

http://davisherb.ucdavis.edu

 and 

http://herbsoc.ucdavis.edu

.  

documentation 

Database model 

Some information provided in the readme file contained in the 

documentation 

download. 

Miscellaneous 

With respect to the GBIF agenda: developments are ported to XML 

capable applications and also towards standards such as DiGIR and 

providing web services for data integration/sharing over the web. 

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