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Atta Biodiversity Information System
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Atta Biodiversity Information System |
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Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad |
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www.inbio.ac.cr |
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Non-Profit |
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William Ulate Rodríquez, Erick Mata Montero |
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Costa Rica |
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Americas |
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Costa Rica |
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Government of Netherlands; Norwegian Agency for Development (NORAD); Global Environment Facility (GEF); Control Electrónico, S.A. (CESA); Oracle, US; Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), US; Soluciones Integrales (SOIN),Costa Rica |
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Data Management and Information Sharing
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Oracle Database and Application Server, Sybase Powerbuilder, ESRI ArcGIS products
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ESRI, Oracle and SOIN - provided reduced costs for their products (GIS, Database and PowerBuilder, respectively) or gave donations of products.
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Biodiversity |
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Permenent since 1999 |
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To develop an information system to manage, record and disseminate data related to Costa Rica’s biodiversity, quickly and accurately |
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The analysis, design, and implementation phases of the Atta system are complete and the system has operated since 2000. About two new modules or modifications to existing ones have been done each year since then. |
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Atta supports all phases of INBio's biodiversity inventory: information capture, management, generation, and communication of information. It supports the administration of multiple inventory collections (currently, insects, arachnids, plants, mollusks, fungi, myriapods, and nematodes) and incorporates biodiversity information at the specimen, species and eco-geographic level. Collaborators for the species information who contact the editor can fill in an electronic form which is stored in a database.
The database deals with large volumes of information – Currently including an Oracle 10g database with more than 173 tables and over 30 Gbytes of space.
It allows access to more than 3 million specimen records in its database, free of charge, through its web interface. |
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Atta is permanently under development; always incorporating more quantity and types of information and undergoing quality checks by specialists from different disciplines. New functionality is planned to be incorporated every year. For 2005 besides major improvements to our reports on the Web and species summaries (pages) modules, new information on types, fungi descriptions, geographical coverages, specimen observations, etc. will be made accessible through the web.
A new version of the system using Open Source Platforms and Technologies is being planned for the next years. |
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William Ulate |
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Tel +5068100 Fax +5068274 |
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Apartado 22-3100, Santo Domingo, De la Estación de Servicio Shell de Santo Domingo de Heredia 100 norte y 300 oeste, Heredia, Costa Rica |
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wulate@inbio.ac.cr |
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Manuel Vargas |
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mwargas@inbio.ac.cr |
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