any taxa.  Note that although the feature set of Mandala is rich, it  

is not necessary that all of these components be employed when you  

use Mandala. 

> 

>  > Contact information and URL 

>Name:  Gail E. Kampmeier 

>Address: Illinois Natural History Survey, 1101 W. Peabody, Urbana,  

>IL 61801 USA 

>Email:gkamp@uiuc.edu 

>URL: http://pherocera.inhs.uiuc.edu/ 

> 

>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 

fewer than 100 worldwide. 

>  > Data import capabilities and/or limitations 

Data may be imported from tab delimited text files, Excel, XML, ODBC,  

and FileMaker Pro.  Specialized import scripts and layouts created to  

aid in importing taxonomic nomenclature. 

> 

>  > Data export capabilities and/or limitations 

All data fields may be exported as tab delimited or comma separated  

text, or the following file formats: SYLK, DBF, DIF, WKS, Basic,  

Merge, HTML table, FileMaker Pro, XML.  Some specialized export  

scripts developed such as specimens examined lists. 

> 

>  > URL or other source of user documentation 

Integrated within Mandala: 

* Context sensitive file and field specific help (HELP.FP5)  

integrated in Mandala.  Link to General Help (housed within HELP.FP5)  

available from navigation file (control.fp5). 

* General introductory information about Mandala in README.FP5. 

* Developer documentation in CHANGES.FP5 records enhancements,  

features, and fixes implemented and changes still needed by version  

number, file, and element changed.  In house developers customizing  

Mandala can also add to this file. 

* Electronic tracking of data problems available in ENTRYQ.FP5.  

Problems and their solutions linked by file and record key. 

On line URLs 

http://pherocera.inhs.uiuc.edu/about.htm About Mandala 

http://pherocera.inhs.uiuc.edu/metadata.htm Metadata about Mandala 

http://pherocera.inhs.uiuc.edu/MandalaModel.pdf annotated  

downloadable data model for Mandala 

> 

>  > URL or other source of database model documentation (tables,  

>attributes, relationships, and their semantics) 

http://pherocera.inhs.uiuc.edu/MandalaModel.pdf is annotated pdf of  

Mandala model. 

> 

>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 

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