[Nhcoll-l] Ranking of largest collections -- HELP

[White, Rich]

I’d be interested in seeing three key performance factors:

1.       Number of specimens curated (catalogued)

2.      Number of type specimens

3.      Number of visitors using the collections


Richard S. White, Jr.
Director of Museum and Facilities
Safari Club International Foundation
4800 West Gates Pass Road
Tucson, AZ 85745

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The list that Mark has is only fish and herp collection though.  I would think the best way to determine this based on your metric of absolute size (and not any other factors like importance or specimen constitution) would be to look at GBIF – www.gbif.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.gbif.org&d=AwMGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=bmwTYga6lAxrRnM-BuIO-JJPIUC307MIJoOAAlizpkI&s=qOET0-w_2LLqQXnOJcyIYSR2sFCjpurFQiIBVGwY3Rk&e=>.  Somewhere there should be a listing of all data providers and you should be able to sort by the total number of specimens.  I will see if I can find a link to what you are looking for but it may be a day or two…

I do agree though (not sure what the context is of the question) but the simple metric of size by specimen count is maybe not the best metric to use for most influential or most important.

Andy

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From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Singer,Randal Anthony
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Mark Sabaj might be a good contact for this. He made a list of all collections for ASIH. I'm sure in the process he got total specimen values as well.

Randy
On Jan 27, 2015 3:51 PM, Christopher Kemp <cjkemp at gmail.com<mailto:cjkemp at gmail.com>> wrote:
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Hi again all, I was really impressed and excited by the feedback for my project collecting examples of newly-described species with long shelf lives. It was great! (But keep them coming too.) I had another question. I don't know if this is empirically known or somewhat debatable, but I'm trying to make a list of the top 5 natural history collections in the US, and in the world. So, two lists. And I mean in terms of size, or number of specimens. Please weigh in. I'm assuming NMNH, AMNH, the Field for the US, but who's next? And in the world, I just don't know: the NMNH, the BMNH, the AMNH? I don't know. Share your thoughts. I'm at cjkemp at gmail.com<mailto:cjkemp at gmail.com>, or respond on the listserv. Thanks in advance! -- ck

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