Arctos somehow owns my data! I need to use a particular format for loan numbers/taxon concept/scientific name/font/screen brightness/interpretation of the number two, and Arctos won't let me! This is hijacking! Help!!!
Our place in the community
Arctos is an attempt to empower Curators. Arctos, as a system, concept, or implementation, has neither the capacity nor inclination to change how it's users do business. We have our own electrons and are not interested in stealing yours. We understand that different collections and institutions will have differing ideas about how things should be done, and we embrace that. We do attempt to provide the tools to build upon the efforts of others and to share your data and results with others. We believe we are better at supporting the freedom to accurately record your data while supporting data standardization efforts than any other natural history management system.
Arctos is open-source. You are free to take the code, under the terms of our license, and do with it what you will. You are also free, under certain restrictions (you cannot interfere with how others do business, nor severely and negatively impact system performance), to submit your code for incorporation into the Arctos project.
All Data Definition Language code is freely available.
As an Arctos participant, you are entitled to download data or receive a regular copy of the Oracle backup files. We think this is unnecessary, but we will accommodate your needs as we can. Arctos' host, AlasConnect, also hosts Golden Valled Electric Company and most of Fairbank's electronic medical data. The Department of Homeland Security conducts regular audits. Specimen data is at least as secure as your electric bill, the software that regulates your power, and your latest medical images.
Media stored in the iRODS system is archived at two supercomputer centers.
We firmly believe that your data are as secure as electronic data can be.
Taxonomy
Arctos continually attempts to provide access to external taxon authorities while allowing curatorial users - you know, those folks who create taxonomy - the tools and flexibility they need to do their jobs. So, while we may suggest taxon concepts from IPNI, uBio, ITIS, or other resources, we will never limit your choices to just those things.
Formatting
Identifiers - loan and accession numbers, field numbers, and soon catalog numbers may be entered in most any format. We encourage standardization, and can provide additional tools (such as incrementers) for standardized data, but there are very few actual requirements.
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