Dear Scott,
they converted my database after I had registered, although I had told them
beforhand that I wasn't an institution (yet :-) ).
Of course, I still had some work to convert some of my data fields to the
Specify standard, but they helped me a lot.
Greetings
Michael

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Subject: Specify


> Dear Michael et al,
> Has any non-institutional user of Specify received support from the
> Informatic Biodiversity Research Center in migrating data from another
> collections database? I am currently using Eledone but it is unstable and
no
> longer supported.
> Is Specify's literature database sufficient for the management of a large
> library? If so, does the literature database have fields for information
> relating to a book's edition, publisher, collation, binding, condition,
> etc.?
> Regards,
> Scott Jordan
>