Database Guide
Written by Web Manager Tuesday, 12 June 2012
1.1. Objectives
The objectives of Tamborine Mountain Natural History Association Inc. (TMNHA) and the website is to share natural history and biodiversity knowledge and experiences. The history on developing the TMNHA website system with a database function was to provide opportunities for TMNHA in wide ranging data collection and display. Some knowledge may have restricted access for various reasons.
1.2. Reference Links
For usage rights, please refer to Content Contribution Usage & Copyright
Help or Support in the Database Help FAQ (and in the Database Forum for Registered Members)
In the horizontal menu above, you can hover your mouse cursor over the Data menu item to display available sub-menus before clicking on the preferred menu item. But if you did not know that or forget, we have recreated the primary menu again below with the first level of your current menu position expanded.
- Data
- Help with Databases
- TM Rainfall History
- TM Species Lists
- Reference Lists
- Locations
- Observations
1.3. Tamborine Mountain Data Collection
Please note that this description has been compiled from a number of persons integral to its development and from material written by them.
Biodiversity data has been collected over a long history of various contributors, which includes
- Very old records donated to TMNHA
- TMNHA members developing and expanding that donated data for printed materials
- TMNHA members collecting observations (mostly birds) through organised bird walks (on and off the mountain) and member's personal observations
- Tamborine Mountain Landcare Inc (TML) was later formed and had members who were also or had been TMNHA members. TML arrange scientific surveys of specific sites to identify and monitor plants and animals at those sites. Its members have also contributed some personal observations.
- Past and continuing data collected by persons unconnected with TMNHA or TML.
- Firstly to create a web database system fully integrated with other TMNHA website systems for TMNHA to collect and display natural history information.
- Secondly to be a system to easily integrate the information (such as bird group data ) that has already been largely developed by and for TMNHA use through recording in the Biodat clipper system.
- TMNHA management agrees that contribution and access to this information should be available to TML and local Councils. Reasonable systems may be set-up if needed for them to use the TMNHA system.