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PRECIS.pc Specimen Database user guide

SABONET Report No. 40
T.H. Arnold & H.M. Steyn.
2005.
A4, soft cover, spiral-bound, 171 pp.
ISBN 1-919976-24-8.
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This updated user guide is the definitive reference to using PRECIS.pc Specimen Database. The database is used to store information extracted from herbarium specimen labels, thus maintaining a comprehensive electronic record of the collection in a herbarium. This information is then accessible for manipulation in a variety of ways. Detailed user-specified reports at the family, genus and taxon levels, or for single collectors, can also be generated. Draft or final specimen labels for mounting on specimen sheets may also be printed. The database can operate as a stand-alone system or as a multi-user network. If more than one stand-alone computer (not networked) is used to capture information, this data can be moved from the secondary computer(s) to the main computer. An added feature of the Specimen Database system is that specimen records entered by a herbarium can be made available to other herbaria using the same system.

The book has been spiral bound for easy day-to-day use, and numerous screen shots illustrate the step-by-step instructions. It includes sections on Installation, System overview, New specimens, Existing specimens, reports, import and export, look-up tables, printing of labels, extraction of records, local setting, and backing-up of the database. This very useful publication is essential for anyone who uses SANBI's PRECIS.pc database, and will be updated in the future through an electronic help file that will be provided with the database.

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