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I am trying to bring my collection into the 21st century. I'm looking
for some curatorial software to catalog all my specimens. Does anyone
know of such software (especially freeware)? Ideally I would like to
have something that has provision for an image of the fossils as well.
If it's not out there I guess I could knuckle down and write a CGI
program to do the job in a browser format but I hate reinventing the
wheel.

Richard "Rik" Hill
LUNAR & PLANETARY LAB.
Kuiper Space Sci. Bldg.
Univ. of Arizona
Tucson, Az 85721-0092
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Tue Feb 17, 2004 5:44 pm

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I am trying to bring my collection into the 21st century. I'm looking for some curatorial software to catalog all my specimens. Does anyone know of such...
Rik Hill
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Feb 17, 2004
5:41 pm

You can do all that in MS Access as well as in new versions of Paradox and, my favorite, FileMaker. I've got my collection in MS Access. It didn't take long to...
Wendell Ricketts
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Feb 17, 2004
5:56 pm

My thought on using CGI was to make it more self contained on one or two CDROMs program, browser, catalog and all. Can this be done with FileMaker? As I...
Rik Hill
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Feb 17, 2004
6:21 pm

As databases go, what you're talking about is really rather small. I think I've only got 32 fields in mine. I use a lot of drop down menus precisely for things...
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Feb 17, 2004
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