[NHCOLL-L:2595] Re: Herbarium database

[Paul J. Morris]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:25:51 -0800 (PST)
Raney Morrison <raneym at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello-
> I've been asked by a botany professor at our local college about
> database systems to manage a herbarium.  He is looking around to see
> what is most commonly used, and is interested if there are any
> "canned" programs out there, so he wouldn't have to make something
> from scratch.  

For a discussion of issues involved in writing your own database from
scratch (and on data life cycles and network security relevant to any
database), see: http://www.phyloinformatics.org/abstract.php?id=7

-Paul
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