Kastikan kuusi vuosikymmentä

Kastikka, a national floristic database in Finland, was established in 1963, when the entry into punched cards of occurrence records from collections in botanical museums and the published literature commenced. Over one million records were entered before the data were moved onto magnetic tapes. In the early 1980s, the data were transferred from the tapes into an Oracle relational database, where they are located still today.
In the 21st century, records from museum collections and literature have been
overwhelmed by records collected directly in the field every year. The location accuracy of the records has also improved over time. Old records were mostly located within 10 × 10 km2 squares, whereas the accuracy of current records is usually 1 km2 or better. Currently, we are experiencing the last years of Kastikka as an independent system. In the future, Kastikka will be integrated into a national collection management system maintained by the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility.