Hi to Walter  don t know if he remembers me from TDWG...     Gail 

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>// 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/ 

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Gail E. Kampmeier 

Senior Research Entomologist 

Illinois Natural History Survey, 

Box 5 NSRC, MC 637 

1101 W. Peabody, Urbana, IL 61801 USA 

ph. 217 333 2824 

fax 217 244 1707 

email: gkamp@uiuc.edu 

See therevid webMandala at http://pherocera.inhs.uiuc.edu/ 

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Mantis 

Here is the completed information for the Mantis database manager: 

  > Availability and cost 

Free download from http://140.247.119.145/Mantis/ 

  > Limitations to scalability 

n/a, database system is FileMaker 6.0 

  > Computing platform limitations or specialization 

MacOS, Microsoft Windows 

  > Specialization by taxonomic group 

All organisms 

  > Estimate of size and distribution of user base 

200 250 individual users worldwide; databases published online: Type 

Collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 

Household Pests of New England, Orthoptera Species File (Katydids), Harvard 

Database of Caribbean Insects, University of Nebraska Insect Collection 

  > Contact information and URL 

Name: Piotr Naskrecki 

Address: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., 

Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 

Email: p.naskrecki@conservation.org 

URL: http://140.247.119.145/Mantis/ 

  > Data import capabilities and/or limitations 

Text, FileMaker, SYLK, DIF, Lotus, Merge, Basic, dBase, Excel, ODBC, XML 

  > Data export capabilities and/or limitations 

Text, FileMaker, SYLK, DIF, Lotus, Merge, Basic, DBIF, HTML table, XML; 

exporting embedded images requires a third party plug in 

  > URL or other source of user documentation 

http://www.filemaker.com 

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

  > attributes, relationships, and their semantics) 

http://140.247.119.145/Mantis/ 

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