4. Appendices
A) Example questionnaire (BioLink)
Dear Dr. Shattuck,
on behalf of the Global Biodiversity Facility (GBIF), the Botanic Garden and Museum Berlin, Dept. of
Biodiversity Informatics is carrying out a survey of collection management and data capture solutions. The
scope of this survey is restricted to publicly available systems that are used by natural history collections.
BioLink has been identified as one of the important software tools for collection management which should
be itemised on this list. So far, we have collected the following information from your world wide web site
(http://www.ento.csiro.au/biolink/software.html).
> Availability and cost
Freely available (send email to biolink@ento.csiro.au)
> Limitations to scalability
n/a, DBMS is Microsoft SQL Server
> Computing platform limitations or specialization
Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, client software has been sucessfully installed on an Apple Macintosh G3
running PC Soft Windows
> Specialization by taxonomic group
All taxa
> Contact information and URL
Dr. Steve Shattuck
CSIRO Entomology
P.O. Box 1700
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia
Phone: +61 2 6246 4272
Fax: +61 2 6426 4264
Email: ento biolink@csiro.au
URL: http://www.ento.csiro.au/biolink/software.html
> Data import capabilities and/or limitations
Import wizard imports from various formats such as tab delimited text files, Excel spreadsheets, Access,
and DBF databases
> Data export capabilities and/or limitations
Raw data export via user defined report module
> URL or other source of database model documentation (tables, attributes, relationships, and their
semantics)
http://www.ento.csiro.au/biolink/development.html
We would like to ask you to correct these information as well as completing the following items which we
could not see from your website.
> Estimate of size and distribution of user base
> URL or other source of user documentation
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