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Development of an innovative information system: a fish identification e-key with update capabilities

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A dichotomous identification key organizes fishes based on their similarities and differences, and is an essential tool in which ichthyologists, biologists, fishery biologists and others can use for accurate identification of specimens or finding information on correct names, biology and distribution of species. This research work focuses on the development and implementation of a totally new information system that is able to identify correctly fish species names. The developed system is a fully interactive fish identification e-key, which can be used in both forms; locally and remotely via the World Wide Web. This new dichotomous classification e-key provides the capability to identify any species in a compact and easy to use environment, which gives the user excellent operation capabilities and complete information about all included fish species. Moreover, the application provides the capability to search for a random fish species and to show a list which includes all the fish species that currently exist in the application's database. There is an extra attribute that makes the new system novel, and this is its expandability: the information system is fully dynamic having the capability to be extended every time a new species is identified. This attribute is innovative because, until now, there is not any fish identification e-key that gives the user the capability to insert new fish species into the application's database.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 141, 57400, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Vassilis Kostoglou & Emmanouil Tolis

  2. Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Technology, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 157, 63200, N. Moudania, Greece

    George Minos

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Kostoglou, V., Minos, G. & Tolis, E. Development of an innovative information system: a fish identification e-key with update capabilities. Inf Syst E-Bus Manage 11, 253–264 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-012-0191-y

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