[Nhcoll-l] Barcodes and accession numbers

[Callomon,Paul]

Accession codes, as Andy Bentley points out, normally record the legal transfer of rights to a defined collection or batch of specimens. However, what you mean might be closer to a "serial number". It is advantageous for every lot to have a unique serial number in the database, as catalog numbers can be duplicates. We have about 15,000 duplicate pairs of catalog numbers out of just over 500,000 records in the Malacology database. Each record has a unique serial number, though, so the pairs don't cause sorting anomalies or other such problems. They will get resolved one by one...

Paul Callomon
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External.
Now that we are barcoding our herbarium specimens, we are thinking about dropping our historical method of assigning internal accession numbers.  Is there any reason to keep both numbers.

Thanks,
Andy

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