The Usage section explains how to organize fieldwork and manage the records that make up a NAHPU project. Use these pages as a comprehensive reference for all the features of NAHPU.
Usage topics
Section titled “Usage topics”- Device Requirements: Choose field devices and accessories based on your field conditions, budget, and access to electricity.
- Projects: Create projects and configure project information, settings, and time zones.
- Settings: Configure catalog formats, field IDs, controlled vocabularies, database records, export presets, theme, and data usage.
- Personnel: Manage people in the database and assign them to projects and fieldwork roles.
- Sites: Record field locations, coordinates, and site information.
- Collecting Events: Record the activities, effort, personnel, weather, and astronomy associated with fieldwork.
- Specimens: Create and manage specimen records, capture data, identifications, preservation, and media.
- Taxon: Manage taxonomic names and import or export taxon lists.
- Narrative: Keep a field journal for observations and context that does not fit in another record type.
- Export: Back up, transfer, and export project data and documents.