[Nhcoll-l] which database software for a natural history museum?

[Paul Nash]

I recommend Specify.


 
P.C. Nascimbene 
Curatorial Specialist
Paleoentomological Research and Collections
Division of Invertebrate Zoology 
American Museum of Natural History
79th Street at Central Park West
New York, NY 10024      USA



On Monday, October 28, 2013 11:25 AM, Derek Sikes <dssikes at alaska.edu> wrote:
 
Nicolas,

I agree with James in recommending a collections database that is

1) entirely online so you interface it via a web-browser from anywhere (no software to install, like gmail).

2) low-cost


but also would like to emphasize another criterion of importance -


3) serves data to GBIF

There are only three that I am aware of that fit these criteria but there may be more:

- Arctos, which I have been using for over a year now, http://arctos.database.museum/home.cfm

- Symbiota http://symbiota.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

- The Ohio State University Triplehorn Insect Collection Database - http://osuc.osu.edu/databasing.html (the developer, Norm Johnson, has worked with others to mobilize their data onto the web)

Cheers,
Derek




On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Margraf Nicolas <Nicolas.Margraf at ne.ch> wrote:

Dear all,
>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.
>Thank you very much for your help.
>Nicolas Margraf
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