[Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion
Gil Nelson
gnelson at bio.fsu.edu
Wed Jan 1 20:52:27 EST 2014
Yes, saw this, but it didn't seem right for collection object. Cindy,
what was being databased?
On 1/1/2014 7:36 PM, Bentley, Andrew Charles wrote:
> Cindy
>
> Is it not this:
>
> http://open2dprot.sourceforge.net/Accession/indexRefMan.html
>
> Nothing you cannot find on Google :)
>
> Andy
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 1, 2014, at 3:55 PM, "Gary Shugart" <gshugart at ups.edu
> <mailto:gshugart at ups.edu>> wrote:
>
>> Hi All: Crowd sourcing? Maybe put it in Dropbox or google cloud
>> share (via gmail) an let folks that have Macs have a look at it if
>> not too large. If it a run time application it might run on older
>> Macs (like I have here). I now use FileMaker on the Mac. As far as
>> getting data out, there is probably an export or convert utility
>> somewhere in the program.
>>
>> I wrote a program in 4D (4th Dimension) for the Mac back in 1992 and
>> one component was called Accession. The other was Catalog. But as
>> far as I know it didn't go beyond a few museums out here.
>>
>> Gary Shugart
>> Collections Manager
>> Slater Museum of Natural History
>> University of Puget Sound
>> 1500 N Warner
>> Tacoma, WA 98416-1088
>> 253 879-3356 (museum)
>> gshugart at pugetsound.edu <mailto:gshugart at pugetsound.edu>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> From: annm at austin.utexas.edu <mailto:annm at austin.utexas.edu>
>> To: gnelson at bio.fsu.edu <mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>;
>> nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu <mailto:nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>
>> Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 19:58:38 +0000
>> Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion
>>
>> Cindy,
>> As far as I know there is no MS Access on a Mac-yet-unless you are
>> running the Mac as a PC. If you notice the MS Office suite for the
>> Mac contains no Access as one of the programs included in the bundle,
>> unlike the PC version. There is an Access - like program within
>> OpenOffice which I have heard had poor import/export tools. I do not
>> know that program but it could account for your colleague's problem.
>> OpenOffice went away in 2011 but I believe there are successors. If
>> you are certain it is MS Access the file endings may be .mdb or
>> .aaccdb- depending on the version of Access you have been using or
>> updated to since 1990's.
>> Best of luck
>> Ann
>>
>> From: "gnelson at bio.fsu.edu <mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>"
>> <gnelson at bio.fsu.edu <mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>>
>> Date: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 3:14 AM
>> To: "nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu <mailto:nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>"
>> <nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu <mailto:nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>>
>> Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion
>>
>> Hi, Cindy
>>
>> Wondering the same thing, myself. Could be a custom Access db renamed
>> to Accession. Check the file extension. If Access, it'll be mdb.
>>
>> Gil
>>
>> On 1/1/2014 1:25 AM, Steve Halford wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure you're not dealing with Microsoft Access? I lost a
>> lot of information when Access "upgraded" without being backwards
>> compatible
>>
>> Steve Halford (halford at sfu.ca <mailto:halford at sfu.ca>)
>> Museum Technician (Retired)
>> Department of Biological Sciences
>> Simon Fraser University
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Opitz, Cindy
>> <cindy-opitz at uiowa.edu <mailto:cindy-opitz at uiowa.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with software called “Accession”?
>> A collection on campus databased objects on an iMac in the
>> 1990s using “Accession” software and now has no access to the
>> information. I’m not familiar with the program. The
>> collection manager currently uses Past Perfect for a
>> different collection and would like help figuring out how to
>> retrieve the data from Accession for use in Past Perfect. Any
>> ideas?
>>
>> Cindy Opitz
>>
>> Collections Manager
>>
>> Museum of Natural History
>>
>> 11 Macbride Hall
>>
>> The University of Iowa
>>
>> Iowa City IA 52242
>>
>> 319-335-0481
>>
>> www.uiowa.edu/mnh <http://www.uiowa.edu/mnh>
>>
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>>
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Gil Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor/Research
iDigBio Steering Committee
Integrated Digitized Biocollections
Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication
College of Communication and Information
Courtesy Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
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