DELTA Programs and Documentation

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12 February 2008

M. J. Dallwitz

DELTA programs originally developed at CSIRO Entomology

Preliminary information

Installation guide

Conditions of use

Revision history

Programs (for MS-Windows 95/NT or later)

Intkey

All programs (including Intkey)

Test versions of the programs

Support: the DELTA-L mailing list

User’s guides

User’s guide to the DELTA EditorPDF 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

The distribution file for ‘All programs’ (above) includes the following.

A primer for the DELTA System.

User’s guide to the DELTA System: a general system for processing taxonomic descriptions (obsolete version).

User’s guide to the DELTA Editor (obsolete version).

User’s guide to Intkey: a program for interactive identification and information retrieval. (Also included in the Intkey distribution file.)

Other documentation

DELTA-L mailing list. The mailing-list archive contains many tips and examples.

DELTA StandardPDF version

Intkey example: differencesPDF version

Intkey example: identificationPDF version

Introdução ao sistema DELTA (PDF)

Known bugs in the DELTA Editor

Miscellaneous

Files for generating messages and help used by Intkey. Not needed for normal operation of Intkey.

Ftp access

ftp://delta-intkey.com/

Other DELTA programs

General

DELIA. Integrated DELTA database management for MS-Windows. 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.

DELTA Menu System. MS-Windows shell for running DELTA programs.

DIANA. MS-Windows shell for running DELTA programs.

Free DELTA. An open-source system for processing taxonomic descriptions. Includes C++ classes for manipulating DELTA files.

PANDORA. Database system for taxonomic and biodiversity research projects. See also Internet Archive: www.rbge.org.uk/research/pandora.home.

PANKEY. Description writing, key-generation, and identification programs for MS-DOS.

TAXASOFT. A DELTA editor, and shell for running DELTA programs.

WebDelta. Perl program for Web entry of DELTA item descriptions. Internet Archive: irisbioc.bio.unipr.it/webdelta/webdelta.html

Interactive keys

See Programs for Interactive Identification and Information Retrieval.

Other links

DELTA-L. A mailing list for discussion of descriptive databases.

DELTA Newsletter archive

Digital Taxonomy. An information resource on biodiversity data management.

Methodology of interactive keys and descriptive databases

Programs for interactive identification and information retrieval

References. Applications and documentation of the DELTA System.

Utility programs for file compression, etc.


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