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Dallwitz, M.J. 2016 onwards. DELTA documentation. delta-intkey.com |
9 April 2019
Contents
For information on how to download, install and run the programs, see Installing and running the programs of the DELTA System.
For a list of the available programs, and information on where to find the documentation of each program, see Programs available in the DELTA System.
For the revision history, see Revision history of the Delta System,
Programs available in the DELTA System • PDF version. A complete list of all the programs available in the CSIRO DELTA System.
User’s guide to Intkey: a program for interactive identification and information retrieval • PDF version. Contains the same information as the app’s built-in help.
User’s guide to the DELTA Editor • PDF version. This is recommended as an introduction to using the DELTA System.
User’s guide to the DELTA System: a general system for processing taxonomic descriptions • PDF version. Detailed descriptions of: the DELTA format; the format-conversion program Confor; the data-maintenance program Delfor (superseded by the DELTA Editor); the key-generation program Key; the distance-matrix program Dist; how to set up Intkey datasets for Web access; the image-annotation program Intimate (superseded by the DELTA Editor).
The DELTA-L mailing list. DELTA-L is a mailing list for support of programs that use DELTA data, and for general discussion of descriptive databases. Topics include: computer programs for taxonomy, data formats, data interchange standards, data capture, data analysis, database design, description printing, expert systems, information retrieval, interactive identification, key making, mapping, and taxonomic characters.
Revision history • PDF version
Conditions of use • PDF version
DELTA Intkey tutorial (PDF) (Amanda Spooner and Alex Chapman)
DELTA-L mailing list. The mailing-list archive contains many tips and examples.
DELTA Primer • PDF version (T.R. Partridge, M.J. Dallwitz and L. Watson). This document contains up-to-date information about entering and editing DELTA data via a text editor, and running the programs in a command window. It was written before the availability of the DELTA Editor, which is now the recommended method for entering and editing DELTA data.
DELTA Standard • PDF version (M.J. Dallwitz and T.A. Paine)
Hints on using Intkey (M.J. Dallwitz)
Intkey example: differences • PDF version (M.J. Dallwitz)
Intkey example: identification • PDF version (M.J. Dallwitz)
Introdução ao sistema DELTA (Mauro Cavalcanti). https://web.archive.org/web/20090218233648/maurobio.infobio.net/downloads/deltaman.pdf
Known bugs in the DELTA Editor (M.J. Dallwitz)
Proposed new features for the DELTA System (M.J. Dallwitz, T.A. Paine, and E.J. Zurcher)
DELIA — An integrated DELTA database management software for Windows 95/98/NT. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia. https://web.archive.org/web/20090704225817/www.dec.wa.gov.au/science-and-research/information-systems-research/delia.html. See also ‘Integration of taxonomic descriptive data across multiple database platforms and softwares (Weed Information Network — a case study)’.
DeltaAccess. Storing and processing DELTA data in MS-Access.
DIANA. MS-Windows shell for running DELTA programs. https://web.archive.org/web/20090208102626/maurobio.infobio.net/
Free DELTA. An open-source system for processing taxonomic descriptions. Includes C++ classes for manipulating DELTA files.
Open DELTA. A port of the CSIRO DELTA System by The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). It runs under Windows or Mac OS X.
PANDORA. Database system for taxonomic and biodiversity research projects. See also https://web.archive.org/web/20020812031612/www.rbge.org.uk/research/pandora.home
PANKEY. Description writing, key-generation, and identification programs for MS-DOS. https://web.archive.org/web/20191030095303/http://www.exetersoftware.com/cat/pankey/pankey.html
TAXASOFT. Open-source editor for DELTA and DeltaXML. https://web.archive.org/web/20180410223027/http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/taxasoft/
WebDelta. Perl program for Web entry of DELTA item descriptions. https://web.archive.org/web/20050227052425/irisbioc.bio.unipr.it/webdelta/webdelta.html
See also Programs for interactive identification and information retrieval.
DELTA Newsletter archive. The DELTA Newsletter was published from February 1988 to April 1996. It was intended to promote communication among scientists developing and applying computer technology in the collection, storage, analysis, and presentation of descriptive taxonomic data. It was not restricted to software or applications supporting or implementing the DELTA Standard.
Topics included: computer programs for taxonomy, data formats, data interchange standards, data capture, data analysis, database design, description printing, expert systems, information retrieval, interactive identification, key making, mapping systems and taxonomic characters.
Digital Taxonomy. An information resource on biodiversity data management. https://web.archive.org/web/20090126182128/http:/digitaltaxonomy.infobio.net/
Methodology of interactive keys and descriptive databases
Programs for interactive identification and information retrieval
References. Applications and documentation of the DELTA System.
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