New features of Kotka published during recent iterations:

October 26

• Tool to record and add new measurements in a more flexible way
• Field to record specimen parts (bones, skin, antlers...)
• Associated specimen taxa -field, which allows creation of associated specimen units automatically
• Option to browse historical versions of specimen data
• Option to search specimens by image count
• Tools for testing Trimble's GPS service API (Trimble TerraFlex)
• Small improvements and bug fixes

October 8

• Cross-validation of Finnish municipality names and coordinates
• Validation phase performance improvements, so that more specimens can be imported at one time
• Finnish manual extended (search help, labelin standard, metadata help)
• Kotka connected to FinBIF's new data warehouse (not public yet)
• Kotka backend moved from Windows to Linux server
• Bug fixes

September 18

• Simple tool to record tissue and DNA sample information
• Insect label customizing tool
• Advanced filtering and sorting of transactions
• Finnish manual extended (taxonomy and identifications)
• Shortcut to seach your own specimens edited today
• Small improvements