>   > Contact information and URL 

> Robert Colwell 

> Address: 

> Email: colwell@uconn.edu 

> URL: http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/Biota 

>  

>   > Data import capabilities and/or limitations 

> Conversion of existing (plain text) data sets with "Import Editor" 

Correct. In Biota 2, there is also a "batch mode" image import and linking tool (guided by a log file that the user prepares, or that is 

automatically created by batch export of images or image links from another Biota Data File).  

>  

>   > Data export capabilities and/or limitations 

> Delimited plain text files, HTML, image files, NEXUS  

I would add: Locality by Taxon matrices for any set of records or taxa at any level (Biota 2; Biota 1 has this but only for Species). 

>  

>   > URL or other source of database model documentation (tables, attributes, relationships, and their semantics) > 

http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/BiotaPages/DataModel.html 

This will of course be updated to reflect Biota 2 s new tables; see the attached Appedix A. 

>  

> 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. 

>  

>   > URL or other source of user documentation 

The Biota manual.  

Biota 1: Paper manual plus two Supplements, 620 pp, fully illustrated. 

Biota 2: CD ROM, 880 pages, fully illustrated and hyperlinked. 

I hope that gives you the information you need. Please feel free to write. 

With best regards, 

Rob Colwell 

>  

> We would be grateful if you could answer this email by July 6 so that we can include your response in our report to the GBIF 

secretariat. Our apologies for  the short deadline! 

>  

> With best wishes and many thanks 

> Anton G ntsch, Dominik Ropert & Walter Berendsohn 

>  

> // Anton G ntsch 

> // Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin Dahlem, 

> // Dept. of Biodiversity Informatics 

> // Konigin Luise Str. 6 8, D 14191 Berlin 

> // Phone: +49 30 / 83850 166   Fax: +49 30 / 841729 55 

> // Email: a.guentsch@bgbm.org 

> // URL: http://www.bgbm.org/guentsch/ 

_________ 

Robert K. Colwell, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor 

Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 

75 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3043 

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 3043, USA 

Voice: 860 486 4395   Fax 860 486 6364 

colwell@uconn.edu 

Visit the Biota Website at http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/biota 

the EstimateS Website at http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/estimates 

& the ALAS website at http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/alas/alas.html

BIOTICA 4.1 

Dear Anton Guentsch: 

I m attaching a word document with information about Biotica. For anything else, contact to me. 

With best wishes 

Patricia Ramos 

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