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In 1987, Daniel Pauly, inspired by cataloging work of Walter Fischer for the FAO in the 1970s, proposed a standardized database for fish species, originally calling it the " ICLARM Software Project". The following year he began to work with Rainer Froese , who had been working on an expert system to identify fish larvae. After an abortive attempt to build a system using Prolog, Froese switched to DataEase , a relational database for DOSThe acronym DOS stands for disk operating system, a type of operating system for computers that provides the abstraction of a file system resident on hard disk or floppy disk secondary storage. DOS for IBM PC compatibles In particular, DOS refers to the f. In 19891989 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 7 Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins January 8 the Kegworth Air Disaster A British Midland Boeing 737 cra the project received its first grant.

In 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic. the project switched to Microsoft AccessMicrosoft Access is a database management system from Microsoft, packaged with Microsoft Office Professional which combines the Jet relational database engine with a graphical interface intended to make it possible for relatively unskilled programmers and, and 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja the first CD-ROMThe CD-ROM (an abbreviation for " Compact Disc Read-Only Memory" ( ROM) ) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. A CD-ROM is a flat, plastic disc wit was released as "FishBase 100". Its initial reviews in scientific journals admired the scope but criticized the many gaps in coverage. Subsequent CD releases have come annually, with the FishBase 2000 release needing four CDs.

FishBase first appeared on the World Wide WebThe World Wide Web (the Web or WWW for short) is a distributed hypertext system that operates over the Internet. Basic terms Hypertext is viewed using a program called a web browser which retrieves pieces of information, called "documents" or " web pages" in August 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan, and hired a webmaster in the following year. Eventually the complete data of the CDs became available online.

As awareness of FishBase has grown among fish specialists, it has attracted several hundred contributors and collaborators. In order to preserve its value as a scientific database, FishBase is not allowed to include original data; all of its content must be based on previously-published material.

For early roots and possible future extensions see the german page