1 Reply by F M Leslie

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Re: Checklists and taxon group attribute

I posted this just before Christmas and as there were no replies, am reposting in the hope that someone might have had a moment of New Year inspiration!

I have an entire database (400,000 records) entered using the Recorder 3.3 checklist.  The database is now in R2002.  I need to extract all the birds and plants - could I use the BIRDS and VASCULAR PLANTS checklists, or would this somehow prevent some of the relevant records from being extracted, if the species names have changed from one checklist to another?

I had thought about using the Taxon Group attribute (as in R6) - and pulling off 'bird' and 'vascular plant', but R2002 doesn't seem to include this attribute in the Report Wizard.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,  Francesca

2 Reply by charlesroper

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Re: Checklists and taxon group attribute

Hi Francesca,

I don't quite recall if R2002 used the nameserver and thus linked taxa in the various dictionaries together. I think it might have added this functionality in later versions. So, I'd suggestion trying it out using a bounding box for a small area to see if it picks out all records you expect.

One further thing to watch out for in R2002 - it didn't much like returning lots of records in the Report Wizard. I think beyond about 30,000 records it would crash.

Hope that helps

Charles

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3 Reply by Giffdj

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Re: Checklists and taxon group attribute

Hi Francesca,

If the job is easily done in R6 and you have a spare PC, you could implement a stand alone copy of R6, convert the R2002 database and do the extraction that way.

Cheers,

Dave