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CompuStrat
database manager
CompuStrat
is the professional paleontologist's custom designed relational
database manager, for assembly and application of illustrated
paleontological databases in a modern working environment.
CompuStrat originated as a robust sample-analysis program,
and retains convenient features from this mode such as real-time
feedback from image, assemblage, locality and range syntheses
during data entry; nested image libraries with no restrictions
on image formats and handling capacity; input autofill and
standardization; and professional report printouts. User interfaces
employ standard data operation commands and procedures.
Its
uses range from professional biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography
to collection management and public interfaces. In the Reader
version bundled with databases on CD, it is used as a platform
for illustrated resources in libraries and schools.
CompuStrat runs multiple databases simultaneously, coordinating
characterization, biozonation, age range, geographic location,
bibliography, ecology, and other attributes that are specific
to each group.
The
number of species, and illustrations, that can be handled
is limited only by the capacity of the computer. 140 data
channels are available for characterizing each group, together
with as many as 20 online image windows per specimen and unlimited
offline image inventory. Data table relationships are graphically
manipulated, and standard timescale, map, morphology, and
other attributes can be edited or replaced by the user's preferences,
while remaining keyed to permanent default states to allow
error-free data exchange with other users. An intuitive data
editor standardizes input and output terms, including input
from user observations, and output to plotter, Photoshop,
Excel. Based on 4th Dimension runtime for Mac, PowerPC,
Windows.
NannOstrat
and SilicOstrat databases
NannOstrat
for calcareous nannofossils, and SilicOstrat for silicoflagellates,
are comprehensive illustrated databases of all currently recognized
taxa (as well as synonymized and invalid names) in their respective
group. The databases, created in CompuStrat Assembler, include
coded age and geographic ranges, morphologic descriptions,
systematics, synonymies, similarity lists, references, determination
key models, and image libraries.
Price
list
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Nonprofit
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Commercial
|
Compustrat
Reader 1-10 copies ea. |
$150
|
$500
|
(higher quantity discounts available) |
|
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CompuStrat
6.0 Assembler, single site |
700
|
1,500
|
CompuStrat
6.0 Assembler, added copy
(for LAN) |
350
|
900
|
Compustrat
6.0 client-server license |
2,700
|
6,000
|
(4th
Dimension SQL server software is additional) |
|
|
| NannOstrat
(Mesozoic) |
850
|
1,600
|
NannOstrat(Cenozoic) (in preparation,
1999) |
850
|
1,600
|
NannOstrat
Mesozoic and Cenozoic (combined) |
1,500
|
2,800
|
| |
SilicOstrat
(all silicoflagellates) |
500
|
900
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Ordering
and inquiries
Third
party Compustrat databases
PalaeoBase,from the Natural History Museum, London,
is a series of fossil databases offered through Blackwells
Publishers, London, beginning with brachiopoda and bryozoa
in 1999. These databases, managed by an onboard CompuStrat
Reader, are designed for classroom excercises in paleontology
at the intermediate and high school level. Based on the Museum's
extraordinary collections, the databases link selected (and
spectacular) fossil pictures to nested, increasingly informative
levels of documentation, in an intuitive context. A demonstration
of PaleoBase shows CompuStrat's capabilities.
PC-Key
Computerized
index for the Ellis and Messina Catalogues ("Flat DOS",
runs under Windows 3.x, 95, 97). Super fast search of indexed
data: finds and sorts entries in the Catalogue by any combination
or partial string of taxonomic elements, author name, and
date. 35 Mb dataspace required for Foram key, 20 Mb for Ostracoda,
3 Mb for Diatom. Quick and efficient way to find a catalogued
species in its original combination.
Foram
and Ostracoda |
$120
|
Diatom |
50
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Ordering
and inquiries |
