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Elysia: Software for the management of biodiversity collections

ELYSIA is an application software developed by the Spanish Node of GBIF to digitize and manage botanical and zoological natural history collections. Elysia is a Microsoft Office Access based program and includes an .accdb configuration file (herbarsys.accdb) and another .accdb file containing the forms needed for the management of checklists, scientific names, labels, queries and the elaboration of lists of materials.

Basic requirements for Elysia: Windows 32/64 bits and Microsoft Office 2010 or higher than 32 bits.

Elysia is the result of merging Zoorbar and Herbar tools, which developments have been suspended because Elysia includes all of their functionalities and new ones. If you need support to migrate your collection or to any other process related to this software, please contact us at support@gbif.es.
Elysia has a gateway to share data in GBIF according to Dissco requirements.

 

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Microsoft Windows
(64 or 32 bits)

Microsoft Office 32 bits
(2010 or newer)

Version number
3.0

Licence
Creative Commons

Features

Elysia enables the following functionalities:

  • Specimen labelling including the storing of all their identifications.
  • Management of scientific names, countries, provinces, identifications and revisions.
  • Generation of different kind of labels, including labels for microscopic preparations.
  • Export to a standard format for its visualization on Internet (Darwin Core Archive).
  • Support for the fulfilment of Nagoya protocol.
  • Integration of the client-server structure in which multiple users can concurrently access to data maintaining their own local configuration.

Software images

Download Area

Setup instructions

FAQ (available just in Spanish)

Source program of GBIF.ES for developers

Elysia 3.0 (Microsoft Office 32 bits)

Elysia 3.0 (Microsoft Office de 64 bits)

User handbook for Elysia 3.0 (available just in Spanish)

Access References

Migration from Elysia 2.0 to Elysia 3.0 (Microsoft Office 32 bits)

Migration from Elysia 2.0 to Elysia 3.0 (Microsoft Office 64 bits)

How to cite

Pando F., Lujano M., Cezón K. Elysia (versión): una aplicación para la gestión completa de colecciones biológicas (consulta: fecha cuando fue consultado). GBIF.ES - CSIC. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.