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Just Blue focuses mainly on biological and taxonomic information systems, specifically
for marine invertebrate taxonomy and species identification.
We have lots of experience and expertise in complex database systems, Windows based
systems, web based systems and smart phone systems.
Please
contact us if you need any more information or requests.
Here are some of the projects we have been involved in lately:
The research done on the Addo elephant population has resulted in a comprehensive
database of the animals, their identity, relations to other elephants in the group,
family trees and life history in general. The publication by Anna Whitehouse in
2002 makes it possible for people visiting the Addo National park to get familiar
with the elephants and to identify some of the animals contained within the borders
of the park. A book, although informative and handy, becomes out of date quickly
as the population constantly changes with new animals being born and older animals
dying. Also some of the character states used in the identification of animals
may change over time, e.g. damage which occurs to the animals as they grow; so ear
notches may increase or tusks may break. It is thus essential to provide researchers,
managers as well as the public with up to date information on the elephants.
The elephant manager project has resulted from collaboration between Just Blue and
the Terrestrial Ecology Research Unit (TERU1) at the University or Port
Elizabeth (UPE2). The project strives to create an application that 1)
can be used to capture the knowledge on the elephants at the Addo Elephant National
Park and 2) can identify the elephants based on a set of observed character states.
1 TERU is now Centre for African Conservation Ecology (ACE)
2 UPE is now the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU)
The CRRF collection manager
project provided the CRRF with a database to manage all their worldwide collections.
The Molenaars River Invertebrates project resulted from collaboration between Just
Blue and the Freshwater Research Unit (FRU) at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
The project strives to provide an online data management system to record information
on all the samples collected, record species composition and diversity, and the
export of data in the preferred analytical formats.
The quadrat analyser is a useful tool to obtain biodiversity data from photos of
quadrats.
Tamira is designed to centralize all the information Shirley needs for tunicate
taxonomy and identification. It can, however, be used for any marine invertebrate
taxonomy.
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