TRiDaBASE: A stand-alone database for storage, analysis and exchange of dendrochronological metadata

Dendrochronological data formats in general offer limited space for recording associated metadata. Such information is often recorded separately from the actual time series, and often only on paper. TRiDaBASE has been developed to improve metadata administration. It is a relational Microsoft Access database that allows users to register digital metadata according to TRiDaS, to generate TRiDaS XML for uploading to TRiDaS-based analytical systems and repositories, and to ingest TRiDaS XML created elsewhere for local querying and analyses. (C) 2012 Istituto Italian di Dendrocronologia. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.