The 2005 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition
December 15-18, 2005
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

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Friday, December 16, 2005
D0194

Using Mandala to manage bioinventories

Gail E. Kampmeier, gkamp@uiuc.edu, Illinois Natural History Survey, Center for Ecological Entomology, Box 5 NSRC, 1101 W. Peabody Dr, Urbana, IL, Neal Evenhuis, neale@bishopmuseum.org, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St, Honolulu, HI, and Michael E. Irwin, meirwin@uiuc.edu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, Box 8 NSRC, 1101 W. Peabody Dr, Urbana, IL.

Originally created to manage specimen-based systematics studies and elucidate detailed histories of taxonomic names, the Mandala database system has evolved to track bulk samples brought in from the field, trace subsamples presorted to higher taxonomic group as loans to specialists for study, and subsequently log individual specimens that are curated and dispersed into collections. Mandala is cross-platform (Mac & PC compatible) using FileMaker Pro as its database engine.


Keywords: database, biodiversity

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