ITD is a program developed to manage taxonomic images (drawings, image file, stacks, videos, etc.).

This program is provided free of charge and it's free to copy under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3.0.

The program allows to insert, update, delete basic taxonomic information as well as manage images associated to those species. The taxonomic level the program work at is species.

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD

The first step is downloading all the software for Windows OS:

• Iconographic Taxonomic Database (ITD) = the program developed by us (a set of PHP programs + icons) + a blank MySQL database + Apache friends bundle (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646 -> Apache web server, PHP interpreter + MySQL DBMS).

Version 2.6.2, compresed with Winzip, for Windows OS. (56 MB)

• ImageJ. You will need this program for doing image analysis on the images stored in the database. For more information, please, refer to http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/index.html:

  Version 1.42, bundled with 32-bit Java (43MB)

• AlternaTIFF. This is a plug-in for the web browser to display TIFF images. For more information, please, refer to http://www.alternatiff.com/.

  Version 1.9.1. Choose the version according to your web browser.

• MWSnap. It is a Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. For more information, please, refer to http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html.

  Version 3.00.0.74.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

You can install the software in any order you want. Only ITD is compulsory, but if you do not install the rest of the program, you will lack of certain features.

• Installing ImageJ

1. After downloading ImageJ to a temporary directory, please refer to this page (http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/docs/install/windows.html) for installation instructions.

• Installing AlternaTIFF

1. Depending on your web browser, you must choose a different way of installation for this plug-in, according to http://www.alternatiff.com/ page.

• Installing MWSnap

1. Double-click on the file MWSnap300.exe on the temporary directory. This will run the setup program.
2. First, you must choose the language (Figure 1).

Figure 1.

3. Press Next in the welcome screen (Figure 2).

Figure 2.

4. Choose the destination directory where the program will be installed (Figure 3).

Figure 3.

5. A installation progress screen will appear, while the program is copying the files (Figure 4).

Figure 4.

6. On the final installation screen (Figure 5), press Finish.

Figure 5.

Then, you need to configure MWSnap:

Run the program, go to the option Tools in the main menu, and then select Settings.

Figure 6.

Then, select the Auto-saving tab, and configure your screen as shown in Figure 7. The Go up to field contains the number 32.767. The Save to folder will be the directory where the images are stored (if you install ITD in a Windows system, tipically will be c:\xampplite\htdocs\acarimg\img\drawings)

Figure 7.

• Installing ITD

1. After downloading the software to a temporary directory, you must unpack the program using Winzip. You must extract the file to a directory call xampplite right down you C:\ partition. When you finish extracting, you must have a c:\xampplite directory. This should be enough for the program to run.
2. You must create a c:\temp directory, in case you want to download the data from the database in any moment.
3. You must copy the file c:\xampplite\htdocs\acarimg\html\macros\Stack_load.txt to ImageJ macro directory (if you have installed ImageJ under c:\archivos de programa\ImageJ, the macro directory will be c:\archivos de programa\ImageJ\macros).
4. To run the program, in your file browser go to the c:\xampplite directory and double-click the file xampp_start.exe This will open a MS-DOS window; THIS WINDOW MUST BE LEFT OPEN FOR THE PROGRAM TO WORK.
5. To access the program, open your web browser and type the following URL:

   http://localhost:9322/acarimg/

   The program main screen will appear. Before anything else, please, go to the section Program configuration, and check that the directories which come by default are correct.