<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">I recommend Specify.<br><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div>P.C. Nascimbene <br>Curatorial Specialist<br>Paleoentomological Research and Collections<br>Division of Invertebrate Zoology <br> American Museum of Natural History<br>79th Street at Central Park West<br>New York, NY 10024 USA</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, October 28, 2013 11:25 AM, Derek Sikes <dssikes@alaska.edu> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div
id="yiv9195520482"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Nicolas,<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>I agree with James in recommending a collections database that is<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>1) entirely online so you interface it via a web-browser from anywhere (no software to install, like gmail).<br clear="none">
<br clear="none"></div>2) low-cost<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div>but also would like to emphasize another criterion of importance -<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>3) serves data to GBIF<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>There are only three that I am aware of that fit these criteria but there may be more:<br clear="none">
<br clear="none"></div>- Arctos, which I have been using for over a year now, <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://arctos.database.museum/home.cfm">http://arctos.database.museum/home.cfm</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>- Symbiota <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://symbiota.org/tiki/tiki-index.php">http://symbiota.org/tiki/tiki-index.php</a><br clear="none">
<br clear="none"></div>- The Ohio State University Triplehorn Insect Collection Database - <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://osuc.osu.edu/databasing.html">http://osuc.osu.edu/databasing.html</a> (the developer, Norm Johnson, has worked with others to mobilize their data onto the web)<br clear="none">
<br clear="none"></div>Cheers,<br clear="none"></div>Derek<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9195520482gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9195520482yqt9833913692" id="yiv9195520482yqt90625"><div class="yiv9195520482gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Margraf Nicolas <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Nicolas.Margraf@ne.ch" target="_blank" href="mailto:Nicolas.Margraf@ne.ch">Nicolas.Margraf@ne.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="yiv9195520482gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dear all,<br clear="none">
The MHNC is a small natural history museum located in the hearth of the Jura Mountains in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. We would like to migrate our collection database (currently in MS Access) to a new software but we remain unsure of the software to use. As we do not have the financial resources nor the technical staff at hands to develop our own software, we would be interested to know what database software is being used by other natural history museums for their collections, their degree of satisfaction using that software and if they have any advice with that regard.<br clear="none">
Thank you very much for your help.<br clear="none">
Nicolas Margraf<br clear="none">
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</blockquote></div></div><br clear="none"><br clear="all"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><br clear="none">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br clear="none">Derek S. Sikes, Curator of Insects<br clear="none">Associate Professor of Entomology<br clear="none">University of Alaska Museum<br clear="none">
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