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What is New in Version 4.0

Below is a list of some of the modifications that have been made to this version in each of its modules.

Database

  • There are more options to configure common values or they are frequently used throughout the time information is captured in the system.
  • On making a connection to a Biótica 3.1 database, a system can automatically migrate it to version 4.0.

Directory

  • Groups and Persons. When a group of persons is introduced or modified (collectors of determinators), the system now will verify that said group has not previously been introduced; if it has, it will not allow it to be introduced again.

Nomenclatural

  • It is now possible to establish any kind of relation between two or more taxons, for this purpose having a catalogue of relations, which can be personalized.
  • Any association can be established between the taxon and one or more files not included in Biótica; the latter can be images, videos, sounds, text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, www page addresses etc.
  • The nomenclatural information can be displayed from any taxonomic level.
  • The type of source with which the taxonomic information will be displayed can be personalized; different sources can be elected for the taxons and for the relations that occur among them.
  • Taxon – Characteristics – Region: this version also contemplates the relation between the taxon and the characteristics associated to it, by a catalogue that can be personalized; this list may in turn be linked to a region in such manner as to obtain a distribution by region of the taxon and its characteristics.
  • This new version of Biótica allows for assigning one or more regions to the taxon.

Curatorial

  • It is now possible to establish a relation between the sample and one or more files not included Biótica; these can be images, videos, sounds, text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, www page addresses, etc.
  • On relating the collection group to the sample, it is now possible to elect as a determinator the first member of said group; the system will automatically create the defined determination group in the event that it does not exist.
  • In this new version, samples that pertain to different taxons can be introduced, maintaining a copy of the data of the active sample (collection date, georeference, etc.)
  • One or more regions can be assigned to the sample.
  • The sample can now be related to another, or a sample of the taxon by a type or interaction; for the foregoing, there is a catalogue of interaction that can be personalized.

Ecology

  • This is a new module, the principal purpose of which is the handling of the following type of information: taxon, distribution and time area (period); population information. It uses the nomenclature and geo-reference modules; it includes a catalogue to introduce the names of the specialists who conduct the study (researchers) a catalogue to indicate to which type of organism the study relates (modified, wild, live organism etc.) and one that contain information on the various parameters that could be captured in a study (e.g. genetic variation, demography, behavior, eco-morphology, reproduction, physical aspects of the environment, etc.)

Georeferenciation

  • In this version of Biótica the concept of region has been introduced. Understood as region is a geographic area that is defined in terms of its characteristics; for example environmental, socio-economic etc.
  • In version 3.1 of Biótica, the sites could only be introduced at the level of municipality. In this new version, sites can be introduced at any level of a region.
  • The form in which the site is ordered can now be configured. This order can be based on the identifier of the site (idsitio), and its longitude or latitude.
  • The user can now define the extreme coordinates (maximum and minimum longitude and latitude) for each region. The extreme coordinates can be defined (maximum and minimum longitude) for each region. The extreme coordinates of a region make it possible to determine if the longitude and latitude of an introduced site are within the limit established for said region; this information allows the system to validate the insertion of the sites.

Bibliography

  • The screens for capturing the bibliography are redesigned.
  • It is now possible to capture the publication date for any type of publication (book, chapter, etc); other data are also included such as the consultation date, ISBN, ISSN and editors.
  • Quick searches can be made:
    • By author, providing the first letters either of the abbreviated name, the name or the paternal surname.
    • By title providing the complete title or its first letters; all titles that comply with said criterion will be displayed.
  • It is now possible to site a www page and access it from the bibliographic entry.
  • There is an option to handle citations on the basis of their author; in previous versions this was only possible on the basis of the publication title.
  • The screens were redesigned to cite the bibliography from the curatorial and nomenclatural modules.

Tools

  • The new Bar Code tool allows for printing bar codes in different symbologies, such as code 39, code 93, code 128, interleaved 2 of 5, code bar and MSI Plessy. Criteria can be defined for printing bar codes using: catalogue number, identifier of the sample, collection date and scientific name of the sample. Bar codes can be generated on the basis of the identifier or catalogue number of the sample.
  • The system can go directly to the information of the sample in the Curatorial module, by simply reading the bar code of its module.
  • The dynamic Reports have been improved; the user can make personalized consultation according to his needs, and once the consultation has been defined, the following is possible:
    • export the information to another data format(Access, Excel, HTML, etc.).
    • use the SQL sentence directly on the database.
    • export the information that has georeference data to the Biótica SIG.
    • format the report and design its labels and/or reports using the report designer.
  • The SIG now can make geographic validation by regions, comparing the information associated to a site on the database with a map that contains said information.
  • Spatial operations can be made. Spatial operations available in SIG are the joining and intersection of maps.
  • SIG can now handle different types of projections, which can be personalized and modified dynamically.
  • With the SIG a new map can be created (shapefile), on the basis of information from another map with a new geographic projection.
  • Conversion can be made from the Arc/Info format to the Shapefile format.
  • Calculate distances.


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