Carolus: A new system for handling electronic botanical collections

Abstract

This study describes a new system for handling and eletronic managing of botanical collections. The software described here was developed in order to give support to herbaria in the task of protecting records of plants species from various national ecosystems, by providing a safe tool, with a friendly interface, easy to use and equipped with features for registration, consultation, updates, statistics, reports, label management, geoprocessing and image database.