Welcome to the Diversity Navigator Web Site!
Diversity Navigator® is a database client for remote creating, retrieving, enhancing, reviewing, editing, and sharing information in databases. The client software is completely written in Java and runs on various operating systems.
Diversity Navigator is a comprehensive scientific database client for remotely accessing Diversity Workbench and other biological databases. It meets the data-management requirements of museums, herbaria and scientific working groups.
Diversity Navigator requires the Java Runtime Environment to be present and installed on the user's computer. If JRE is not yet installed, see the Installation Page for instructions on installing JRE before installing Diversity Navigator.
Diversity Navigator is available for free and open use without a licensing fee. Registering Diversity Navigator by Registration Form helps the developers to document the level and extent of Diversity Navigator use, in order to secure ongoing grant support [– either to be removed or to be established at a later stage].
Supported database systems
Supported SQL variants:
Supported character encodings
Client–database connection via:
DiversityNavigator comes with a bunch of configuration files that let you change and tune the settings of the program.
These pages describe how to use DiversityNavigator.
If you want to set up your own database for use with DiversityNavigator, you have to use modified version of PostgreSQL. This page provides more information about the modified database.
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