Abstract: The I3N Cataloguer is distributed free of charge by I3N Project Management to any participant who requests it. This tool provides a simple way to create data descriptions called metadata and to share these with others. The Cataloguer presents forms on which information about databases is entered to create records, but it also transforms the records into XML-tagged text files that can be accessed by others if the files are posted on a Web server. Utilities to harvest, query, and display the information from all web servers are being developed. Download/Update Cataloguer. More on the I3N Cataloguer. See suggested I3N standards.
Purpose: The I3N Cataloguer tool was developed to assist in the country inventories and to introduce a method for information sharing using XML. It is a simple application written for Microsoft Access 2000? that provides data-entry forms for the creation of four catalogs and has an XML output function for making the entries accessible on the Web. Users of the I3N Cataloguer will be able to access their records through MS Access or through other applications that implement the XML structures created by the Cataloguer. The Cataloguer can be used to conduct an inventory of electronic information or to organize information collected previously using other means (e.g., on paper forms). Information entered into the Cataloguer is stored in an MS Access database. Queries and reports can be created using the standard utilities in MS Access. Each user can search and manipulate the local database, but not someone else’s database. That’s where the information-sharing capabilities of XML come in.

Progress: Complete
Update Frequency: Unknown

Theme Keywords: none, datatype, habitat, progress, rank
Place Keywords: Amazon Basin, Andean region, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean islands, Caribbean Sea, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Neotropics, Nicaragua, North America, North American Atlantic coast, North American Pacific coast, Pacific Islands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, River Plate Basin, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South America, South American Atlantic coast, South American Pacific, South American Pacific coast, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, United States, Venezuela

Access Constraints: none
Usage Constraints: none