EcoVault is a database management system – a task researchers standardly delegate to software tools such as MS Excel, MS Access, Biota and others. However, EcoVault, is more intuitive than these other programs, working with it does not require deeper IT knowledge, and data from these programs can be exported to it and imported from it. EcoVault is a modern browserbased application with a user interface known to all who normally fill forms, filter and search for data on websites. The EcoVault interface also allows several users to work on a single dataset simultaneously, both on local networks and the worldwide network. The database has a basic structure for working with taxons, samples, observations of individuals from different trophic levels, as well as for mutual specific interactions. Users can configure the system for individual projects based on their sampling and protocols, which can include adding userdefined variables, setting authentication rules, and setting rules for linking types or other variables.
