Mindat catalogue system

I am ready to start private testing for the new mindat catalogue system and want maybe 5-10 people to volunteer to test the system.

It's nowhere near finished yet, but it is currently usable for entering and retrieving your mineral data, and over the next few weeks more features will be added including searching, reporting and import/export.

So I need people who

a) Are already familiar with how mindat works and have uploaded photos. Please do not apply unless you have had at least 20 photos approved on the site.

b) Are serious about cataloguing their private collection.

Getting involved now is a great way to help make the system work in the way you want it to!

All information in the catalogue system is confidential and not shown to other members. In the future I'll add a facility to allow you to share certain information if you wish to, but the default will be to share nothing except the photographs.

Jolyon



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/10/2008 03:54PM by Jolyon Ralph.

Hi Jolyon,

if the test envolves an apple macintosh, i could subscribe myself, if not, please, remember also thate we too are exhisting ;)

As it's built into mindat, it'll work on whatever computer system you have, PC, Mac, Linux, iPhone, etc, etc :)

Jolyon

Hi Jolyon

I'd be happy to be a guinea pig...

Regards
Steve

...so will be possible to print the labels of own samples? Simone

Simone,

Eventually - but not in the first version.

Jolyon

It something I do need to do so I'd be a volunteer

Hi Jolyon,

I am volunteer to. No problemo.

Take care and best regards.

Paul

I'd be happy to give it a try.

Jolyon - I'm a confirmed database geek with hundreds of specimens with photos; sign me up.

Tony

Jolyon - Since I already have an extensive MS Access database, I would be more than willing to test out merge / data exchange / download features...

Jeff

Jeff

I'll let you know when that's available - it won't be just yet.

Jolyon

Hello Jolyon,

It is great that the project is under way ! I have waited with a digital cataloguing of my collection because I have looked for a system where mineral names and localties can be downloaded from a mother database making it much easier to use. I would be happy to contribute to your testing - if you need more volunteers.
Knut

I have time to test and a lot to upload
Cheers!

Happy to participate...Joe Freilich

First public alpha test is now available.

I am starting to use this to put my REAL collection catalogue in, so you can probably start using it for real - but I can't guarantee things won't break as it's still in test.

If you want to start using it go to:

[www.mindat.org]

(you need to be registered and logged in)

Joluon

To associate an existing photo with your catalogue entry, go back and edit your photo and fill in the field near the bottom for your catalogue entry number, making sure it's exactly the same as you've entered in the catalogue.

Jolyon

CSV import/export will come later. Maybe next couple of weeks.

Jolyon

Howdy Jolyon,

Will be glad to give it a run, I might actually get the collection catalogued properly at long last...lol

Cheers Mark

Jolyon Thank you for adding this very useful feature - some comments - the linkage with MINDAT locality does not seem to be working. Also, I am thinking of adding a "quality" field to my database, this would be useful as well, similar or identical to the quality field in the photograph.
Possible future enhancements could include 'cloning' a record and autoentry from locality pages.

Questions - will mutiple photos be able to be linked to a single catalogue entry? Will duplicate ID numbers be flagged.?

Again, thanks for this great feature!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/10/2008 04:01AM by Jeffrey Weissman.