Of note is the widespread use of Recorder for biological and geological recording. Also general commercial databases such as Access , dBase , and Filemaker Pro are more widely employed than for object databases. In addition 149 institutions have members of staff, trustees, etc. with personal access to the Internet. ISDN was used by a few of the larger local authority museum services, nationals, and one independent. Institutions with the 'Other' connection type are those indirectly linked via a local area network of their parent body.
Collections range in size from the tens of thousands to a handful of images.