Customizations

Complaint: Arctos isn't customizable enough. The screens are mostly fixed, and collections can't change labels at will.

Response: I don't think you've thought the problem all the way through! Two things are at issue here: A concept called normalization, and the issue of biodiversity standards.

Any database that requires extensive customization to support a diversity of collections simply isn't doing one or both of those things.

Normalization allows us to use the data itself as a label. Arctos's Attributes screen, for example:



While no existing standards tell us what to label each field in a database, common terminology is something worth striving for. When there's nothing to follow, we in the Arctos community strive to lead.