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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