Papis, specimen and image database
Papis is a FileMaker database system designed to digitize and manage zoological collections. It allows specimen image handling, trip recording, label generation and specimen loan management.
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Publisher(s):
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Zoological Museum, 2012
Target audience: Zoological natural history collection curators and managers.
Abstract: Papis© is a database system based on FileMaker® Pro 11 – The Papis© system is designed for specimen registration throughout the Animal Kingdom in and is intended to be simple and easy to use.
Papis© covers the basic needs for registration and online data sharing and is well suited for institutions as well as for individual scientists/curators.
You can install Papis© on your desktop computer, or bring it with you on your laptop when traveling to other museums or into the field. Or you can install Papis© on a FileMaker© server, give access rights to selected individuals and let people work simultaneously with the system.
Papis© covers the basic needs for registration and online data sharing and is well suited for institutions as well as for individual scientists/curators.
You can install Papis© on your desktop computer, or bring it with you on your laptop when traveling to other museums or into the field. Or you can install Papis© on a FileMaker© server, give access rights to selected individuals and let people work simultaneously with the system.
Bibliographic citation: Pape, T. & Ioannou, N. (2012), Papis v.3.0 Software and User’s Guide (168 pp.), available from GBIF (http://www.gbif.org/communications/resources/).
Contributor(s): GBIF
Rights: Available to the scientific community as a free and open system. Proper credit is due to the developers and the Natural History Museum of Denmark. The Papis system is a non-commercial product (you may not use this work for commercial purposes).
Rights Holder: Thomas Pape, Nikolas Ioannou and the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
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