VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN - An User-Friendly Software for Creating and Managing Personal Plant Database and for Plant Family Identification (http://www.iebr.ac.vn/pages/1PlantsVN.asp)

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN has been developed under the concept of intelligent plant database: To combine the plant database functions with the utility of plant specimen identification in a database software

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN – Database structure The basic unit of the database is plant picture An array of records holds information of pictures with following fields: Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, Picture

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN – Database functions Display database structure Add a record Edit a record Delete a record Statistics of the whole database Statistics of the selected records Display selected records in html-format

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN – Database functions Display database structure

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN – Database functions Display selected records in html-format

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN – Database functions Other functions

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN – Identification utility Display a dialog box for selecting characters Software accompanied keys!

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN – Identification utility Display a dialog box for selecting characters User created keys!

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN – Identification utility All the taxons that have all the selected characters will be displayed A kind of web site!

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN – Identification utility The format of key file: Taxon name=\\achracter1\\character2\\... Just plain text!

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN – Identification utility Database file Declared file types: Key file Application file

VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES PlantsVN – http://www.iebr.ac.vn THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!