Dear beekeeping fellows.
 
Sorry! I am pointed out that my writing of the URL address is wrong! So to
help those
who is interested to get in touch with the software I resend this message.
Plise forgive me if I waste some bandwide with it. I know this list is for
discussing beekeeping, so let us get back to this.
 
Now and then I have seen requests about beekeeping software!
 
EDBi a Danish beekeeper foundation have 1987 started developing a practical
beekeeping software, with help from practical beekeepers in Denmark,Sweden,
Suomi/Finland, Germany and some other countries.
 
the result is a multilingual software developed for the beekeeper society
in the western world. It is software running on the windows platform, both
win 3.+ and win95/NT
 
What use do you have from it!
 
First of is will standardise your hivenotes, in a way that will limited the
notes needed for the practical beekeeping. This standardisation will also
make it possible for you to cooperage with other beekeepers in
queen breeding.
 
You can enter the notes You have collected for each beehive into a database
(paradox for windows). By the end of the bee year you then can calculate an
Index on each family. This index can be helpful in your selection of the
queens to go on with. You can call up a spreadsheet like window with the
queen sisters, and thereby have a direct comparison of their data. those
data can be shown in a graphical way, making it more easy to compare the
queens.
 
You will also have a database with disease and its treatment connected to
each beehive, making it more easy for you to keep track on results of your
treatment.
 
to each hive you can connect other software if they are OLE compliant. e.g.
excel and winword, or a sound software if you like. The ability is only
limited to the software installed on your computer.
 
as an extra add-on you have a pollen database with 8000 angelic/Latin names
on plants. From this you can build up a bee plant flora with pictures and
pollen photos.
 
How do You get this software :
 
Internet on http://home4.inet.tele.dk/apimo/edbi.htm
 
you will get a 60days or 20 runs demo software that will allow you to try
it out. If you like the software and want to use it, you will have to pay a
registration fee for it. this fee is used to keep the developing on the
software to continue, so that it can be as perfect and useably as possible.
As registered user you have influence on the developing, and will receive
free updates of the software for a period of two years. People contributing
with language translation will of course get the software for free.
 
for now the software is using the following languages:
 
Danish,
German,
Swedish,
Finnish,
French,
Spanish,
Dutch,
English
 
but more languages will be very welcome :-)
 
If you are participating in the Apimondia Congress in Belgium you can look
for the presentation/demonstration of the software. I will be present there
with my computer, and also representing the BEENET communication society.
 
                                        best regards to all of you
 
                                        Jorn Johanesson
                                        Author of the software 'Bidata'
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