[Nhcoll-l] Proposed Dept of Interior regulations pertaining to museum collections

[Doug Yanega]

On 2/25/15 11:12 AM, Ellen Paul wrote:
> "so anyone who maintains a database like this should be able to add 
> DOI numbers just as easily as we did."
>
> Prospectively, right?
>
Ours were not, and could not have been, since we didn't even know how 
many specimens we had until they were all mounted and labeled, which 
took years. Once we were finished processing, I simply told them "We 
have X specimen records and will need X accession numbers" - they then 
sent me a number range, and I dumped those numbers into a pre-existing 
field in each database record for supplementary data. Poof. They still 
sent paperwork for me to sign, listing their numbers, which was fine - 
so they have what they want, and we have what we want.

Peace,

-- 
Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314     skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
              https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cache.ucr.edu_-7Eheraty_yanega.html&d=AwIC-g&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=M3re8qbNe6_Txcqe68P7W_c2Um9QndkTYCbVYR6mVTs&s=hooP-c1coF9mM8PxdQMPbgVZ3cwq9hwJjr9bUm_Zeh4&e= 
   "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
         is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/nhcoll-l/attachments/20150225/140a999f/attachment.html