News from Bioshare projects

13.8.2002

The observation database of the Lepidopterological Society of Finland was transferred to the Bioshare server and entered production.

4.11.2001

Biotella user's guide has been updated to give more guidance to first time installation. See the section 3.1.

31.10.2001

Biotella release 2001f is now downloadable from http://zope.bioshare.net/serv/download/biotella/.

18.10.2001

An experimental data warehouse with simple query functions is available for testing at http://pyy.bioshare.net/.

30.9.2001

An updated but still very experimental database upload script for PostgreSQL and related PHP programs have been posted. It basically just takes all Biotella's export dump files and puts them to PostgreSQL.

16.4.2001

Biotella entomological database application for personal computers has been updated for a better management of geographic data, including possibility to use remote map servers. Biotella also comes with the option to use RUBIN codes. Download the newest release 2001e4 of Biotella from http://zope.bioshare.net/serv/download/biotella/.

9.4.2001

The first test interface to the central database system (Bioshare Server) at http://www.bioshare.net/interfaces/ is now up and accepting data. Feel free to test the system and report any serious error messages to jere.kahanpaa@helsinki.fi. Please note that any data you'll feed will for the time being be treated as test material only and the database will be flushed at irregular intervals; your data will not be safe and the database will show spurious and false observations during the testing period.

6.4.2001

http://www.bioshare.net/ now runs virtually at the standard port number 80.

26.3.2001

The first public version of Biotella was released. Biotella is a new entomological data base application for personal computers. It can be used for data collection in the field and import/export to central data warehouses. Biotella is free of charge and distributed as an open source application, which means that you can modify it to suit your needs. It runs on and requires Microsoft Access 2000. Biotella can be downloaded from http://zope.bioshare.net/serv/download/biotella/ Later in the year 2001, we plan to launch a central data warehouse on the Internet that can receive and send data from and to Biotella.

16.3.2001

The website is now running with a minimal page setup (this page). We are working on system setup and a minimal user interface to the database will be created in the following weeks. The test interface will probably include a simple form for sending data for a few species and a sample of daily or weekly maps of distribution in Finland or Scandinavia.