ISIS Software
ISIS serves as a center for cooperative development of zoological software. This spreads software development costs across many institutions, making the software support available to all participants at a reasonable cost.
ARKS4, or "Animal Records Keeping System" lets members contribute information and generate reports from that database.
MedARKS, or "Medical Animal Records Keeping System" is distributed upon request to ISIS members, and supports veterinary medical records keeping and collection.
SPARKS. or "Single Population Analysis & Records Keeping System" supports studbook management and species analysis, and is for use by studbook keepers.
EGGS is egg clutch management software for a single facility, and augments records for egg-laying species in both ARKS4 and SPARKS.
REGASP, or "Regional Animal Species Collection Plan" is distributed upon request to ISIS members under license from the Australasian Regional Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria (ARAZPA), and gives access to plans from other collections.
ZIMS, or "Zoological Information Management System" is the next generation ISIS software which is being delivered in stages starting in March 2010. The ZIMS application is the world’s first real-time, unified global database for animals in zoos and aquariums. It will be released in four stages starting in March 2010 with the core animal inventory functionality needed by zoos and aquariums. Future releases will include information needed by veterinarians (March 2011), studbook keepers (September 2011), and advanced functionality (workflow tools in March 2012).
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