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AditSite - Ideal for professionals, organisations and amateurs alike

                         

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AditSite has all the features you need to manage your wildlife and ecological recording, analysis and information presentation, with straightforward analytical, reporting, mapping and graphing facilities.

If you are working for an organisation or as a volunteer and need to pool data with a national or international recording database, then AditSite is the clear choice - no matter what others are using.

AditSite is fast and efficient: designed to meet the needs of the working professional, it can also be scaled to meet the collective needs of voluntary or statutory groups, who need to share a single integrated data set.

With AditSite you can start to save management time and thus control project costs from day one.

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Why do I need AditSite?

• Are you making decisions which affect biodiversity?



• Are you required to manage an area of land effectively?



• Is your aim to target the population increase of a specific species?



• Do you need to establish the presence or absence of a specific species?



• Are you classifying specific sites, perhaps based on the predominant vegetation?



• Are you recording site features, such as sand dunes or dune slacks, and how they change over time?



• Do you have an interest in rare or endangered species and need to record all locations where they occur?



• Is your recording to establish a true measure of rarity both nationally and locally?

AditSite is the wildlife and ecological recording software for you

• Do you need to combine and collate your recording activities with the contributions of other professionals, amateur enthusiasts and volunteers?



• Does this resulting base of data need to be turned into actionable and analysable information?



• Do you need to present the information to others using reports, atlases, work schedules, budgets?



• Do you need to supply selected data in key documents?

Use AditSite to achieve intelligent reporting, graphing and mapping

AditeSite has everything you need, no need to look elsewhere

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Recording

• Record using comprehensive species lists free with AditSite (over 60 lists, 150,000+ species, to date)
  
  e.g. birds, insects, wild flowers, mammals, lace wings, spiders, RSPB bird list,
  butterflies and moths, mosses/liverworts/lichens, molluscs, galls, dragonflies,
  BSBI complete, mycology, reptiles, amphibians, NBN complete, coloeptera etc.



• Add your own species list and share them with other users; add/amend items in the existing lists, or request a list direct from Adit Limited



• Automatically replicate fields



• Rapid search for selecting species - code, shortname, partial name etc.



• Create customised data entry screen



• Flexible entry dates (e.g. year only)



• Choose your preferred count system (e.g. DAFOR, DOMIN, Presence/Absence, Zero)



• Define counts for types of records



• Set up record cards for bulk entry of counts for several species at once



• Geographical location by grid reference (OS, Lat and Long, UTM), click on a map, enter manually or add position via GPS



• Add your own user-defined fields for each species list and subsequently for data selection and reporting



• Link notes, documents and pictures (including instant internet picture search) to certain records



• Restrict others from having access to sensitive data

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Reporting

• Select data using the standard Adit tools, customise reports or by selecting data plotted on a map



• Use or modify the built-in reports, e.g. Data list, Item list, Items per site, Item range, Diary, Monthly maximums, Items at site, Query (advanced users can build their own SQL queries)



• Create your own user-defined Reports with the report generator - by Species, Date, Reference, Recorder and Site



• Quick Graph, Quick Sort, Quick Search on any column of data



• Automatic scheduling



• Create web pages from your data



• Create user-defined Report Groups to link species of special interest (from different groups if you want). Use the report group to aid data input



• Link sites together to form larger reporting areas



• Drill down to complete details of individual records



• Hyper-indexing on all columns - click on an item in the index to find that item

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Data import and export

• Exchange data with other AditSite users (or collate data centrally) - all records in a selection or just records added since the last report



• Export data to your favourite word-processor, database or spreadsheet



• Use Tab, Comma, Flatfile, Clipboard to export



• Paste Maps and Graphs directly into your text, or use industry-standard reporting tools for additional access to the data (including XML format)



• Export data via the BSBI data transfer standard



• Export data to GIS, MapInfo, GIS Arcview, NBN Gateway



• Export data to DMAP via the integrated link



• Import from Levana, Transect Walker



• Export data to your handheld (AditTrec)



• Two way links to your GPS to collect recordings and to pilot you back to key locations

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Plotting

• Present data on maps in as simple or complex a manner as you like, from within AditSite (using AditMap, our map building package) or DMAP



• Plot Sightings for any area even if you do not have a map



• Automatic size to fit page for printing



• Pre-post date split plotting for data analysis



• Atlas printing system



• Use the built-in graphing facilities to explain trends and make key evaluations, e.g. 2 and 5 year comparison, species comparison, statistical analysis, species population analysis, seasonal or migratory assessment

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AditLite

• A special cut-down version of AditSite for use by satellite recorders



• Customise AditLite via AditSite Professional and distribute freely to volunteer recorders



• Data can be transferred by email or FTP



• Or transfer data more traditionally via magnetic media

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Species Lists

• AditSite comes preloaded with over 150,000 species



• The different species lists included on AditSite reflect the huge range of interests of our users



• AditSite also provides the tools to allow you to make changes and additions to any list



• Or you can build your own lists for personal use or to share with others



• Some AditSite recorders maintain master lists that run to over 100,000 entries (and databases with several million records)



• Working with long species lists calls for the flexibility and responsiveness of AditSite software to ensure easy and accurate usage



• AditSite's simple point and click interface, combined with the instant search facility, ensures that species are identified, selected and entered with the absolute minimum of effort - click the species, click the map and your record can be safely recorded



• Of course, you can add a lot more to your records but AditSite gives you the option of doing things simply and only using the sophisticated features when you need them



• If you wish to record anything that is not currently found on AditSite, please contact us about the provision of a suitable species master list



• We have an open commitment to providing such lists and will always try to provide you with the list of your choice



• The species lists used in our programs, come from a number of different sources:
  
  
  • Lists compiled by the Adit team
    
    
  • Lists compiled by AditSite users
    
    
  • Lists provided by third parties - usually 'parent' organisations for recording schemes

Please note, all species lists are copyright-free for private use.

However, you must contact the owner (e.g. Adit, AditSite user, DMAP, Ordnance Survey, MultiMap, English Nature, NBN etc) if you wish to use these species lists commercially.

If in doubt, contact Adit direct.

If you have a species list that you think might be of use to others, please email it to us.
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Species Lists in AditSite

The following table shows some of the species lists currently provided in AditSite

Aculeata	Amphibians	Atlas Plants	Beetles	BioBase Coleoptera
BioBase Mammals	Bird Survey Example	Birds	Bryophytes	BSBI Complete
BTO Complete	BTO Survey List	Butterflies and Moths	BWARS	Collembola
Coleoptera	Constraint	Darter	Dragonflies	European Butterflies
Freshwater Fish	Fungi	Fungi 96	Galls	Hymenoptera
Insects	IOM Special	Just Butterflies	Lace Wings	Lepidoptera Portugal
Lichens	Mammals	Mayflies	Migrant Moths	Molluscs
Mosses, Liverworts and Lichens	Moths and Butterflies	Mushrooms	Mycology	Myriapod and Isopod
NBN Beetles	NBN Complete	Orthoptera	Reptiles	RSPB Bird List
Scottish Birds	Slime Moulds	Snowdon Mammals	Spiders	True Bugs
True Flies	Wild Flowers	WildKey	World Birds	World Owl Trust

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Unlimited support for life by email or phone

• AditSite has been designed to be user-friendly and every new version of the software is exhaustively tested before release



• However, if you do ever have any queries, AditSite comes with unlimited support for the lifetime of the product



• If you have a problem, you can contact us by email or phone - no need to worry about FAQ pages or form-filling



• Talk to a member of our team, someone who shares your enthusiasm for the task in hand and who has a thorough understanding of software and computers



• After all, you are investing your time and effort in the field and we want to ensure that you are happy with the way AditSite allows you to analyse and report your data



• With AditSite you can be confident that we will always be able to help you through the unforeseen. AditSite data import and export facilities ensure that we can support your queries regarding your own data too

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Purchase AditSite

AditSite Professional: £135+VAT

AditSite Personal: £42+VAT

(AditSite Personal is only available to private individuals, recording as a hobby)

All versions of AditSite now come complete with AditMap, our map-building software.

The latest version of AditSite can be downloaded from the forum