Overview

Iris - Botanical Garden consists of a number of standard components. These provide all the functionality that is necessary for an effective collection management.

Features

Here are some of the key features you will find in the standard components of Iris - Botanical Garden.
 

Taxa

  • Manages taxa and nomenclature, including changes in taxonomic status.
  • Includes data about systematic rank, scientific and vernacular names, synonyms, authors, parentage, distribution, habitat, literature, images, etc.
  • Contains an overview of the living cultivations of a taxon.

Accessions and cultivations

  • For accessions, information such as taxon, origin, locality, collector, determination status, material type, IPEN-number and images can be recorded.
  • For the cultivations of an accession, information such as location in the garden, cultivation status, label type, map coordinates, etc., can be given.
  • A history of changes for a cultivation is automatically maintained.
  • Data can be imported from sources such as the Iris Mobile module.  

Reports and data export

  • Various reports can be created based on flexible selection criteria.
  • The reports can be previewed, printed or exported to various file formats, such as doc, xls, csv, pdf or html.
  • Data can also be exported in defined formats such as the Garden Search Database format (see BGCI), the Darwin Core and ABCD formats (see TDWG).

Labels

  • Labels for use in the garden can be created by using Word mail merge or the data can be exported for later import into an external label printing program.

Contacts

  • The information about contacts includes name, address, email, etc.
  • Contacts can be grouped according to type such as companies, persons or other botanical gardens.
  • Mailing labels for contacts can be printed.

User accounts

  • All users must have a user account.
  • The account defines the access privileges to different parts of the system through user roles defined by the system administrator.

User defined codes

  • User defined codes are used throughout the system.
  • Examples of such codes are systematic groups, families, genera, user roles, cultivation places in the garden, label types, etc.
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