Dear Jeff
I regret that as a new COA member living in England I will not be able to
make to the COA Convention this year but I am very interested in finding a
user friendly data base for my collection. Will further information be made
available on this after June?
Regards
           Dominic
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Dominic Rawlingson Plant
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> Subject: Seabase Database
> Date: 28 April 1999 01:51
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> Conch-l,
>
> Seabase is a Mollusca cataloging/multimedia database.
> Originally written in the relational database Microsoft
> Access 7.0, the project will be ported to Access 2000
> when released in June '99.  Designed initially for my
> wife, Lori Schroeder, this project strives to present a
> visually attractive and efficient interface.  Access 97
> and 2000 provide hyper link capability to keep the
> database size smaller and provide increased efficiencies
> for larger collections. Searches, queries, forms, data
> slip labels, and reports are included.
>
> Data and taxonomy fields are based on information
> presented in COA articles.  One of the most appealing
> features is the automatic search and insertion of higher
> taxonomy data from past entries when adding another
> genus or species of the same type.  Thus eliminating
> typing errors of repetitive entries and becoming a
> significant time saver for extensive collections.  One
> can select a previous entry from a drop down combo box
> listing previously entered data or simply start typing
> and previous entries appear as each letter is typed.
>
> Multimedia features include fields for scanned/digital
> images, sounds, world map showing the highlighted zone,
> and 3D rotating images of the scanned/photographed
> shell.
>
> Genealogists will appreciate what is termed  "Soundex"
> search capabilities.  Upon typing in what one thinks is
> the name of a shell, the database returns a listing of
> other shells that have similar names.  Searches include
> searching by any text field including Genus and/or
> species.
>
> See you in Louisville for the COA convention...
>
> Jeff Schroeder
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