[Nhcoll-l] Barcodes and accession numbers

Wed Feb 24 11:07:54 EST 2021

Do that.  I agree.

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From: Miller, Andrew Nicholas <amiller7 at illinois.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 8:05 AM
To: Robert C. Faucett <rfaucett at uw.edu>, Thomas Labedz <tlabedz1 at unl.edu>, Callomon,Paul <prc44 at drexel.edu>, nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu <nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Barcodes and accession numbers
My apologies for not being clear.  We will keep all old accession (serial) numbers in our databases.  We will just stop assigning new numbers to specimens and only assign a barcode number.

Thanks for all the great opinions!

Andy
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Mycologist and Director of the Herbarium/Fungarium
University of Illinois
Illinois Natural History Survey
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Subject: Re: Barcodes and accession numbers

Scientific publications may reference the old number?

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Robert C. Faucett

Collections Manager

Ornithology

Burke Museum

Box 353010Test

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98195-3010

Office: 206-543-1668

Cell: 206-619-5569

Fax: 206-685-3039

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Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Barcodes and accession numbers

In my training the term “accession number” historically applied in herbarium situations meant the same as the unique “catalog number” in non-herbarium collections.

I might be wrestling with the same issue in coming years.

Thomas Labedz, Univ. Nebr. State Museum

Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.

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Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Barcodes and accession numbers

Non-NU Email

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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

Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates

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Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Barcodes and accession numbers

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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Andrew Miller, Ph.D.

Mycologist and Director of the Herbarium/Fungarium

University of Illinois

Illinois Natural History Survey

1816 South Oak Street

Champaign, IL  61820-6970

phone: (217) 244-0439

email: amiller7 at illinois.edu<mailto:amiller7 at illinois.edu>

website: http://wwx.inhs.illinois.edu/research/pi/amiller<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com_-3Furl-3Dhttp-253A-252F-252Fwwx.inhs.illinois.edu-252Fresearch-252Fpi-252Familler-26data-3D04-257C01-257Cprc44-2540drexel.edu-257Ca9ca20d1ebbb42c2e8e008d8d8d5baae-257C3664e6fa47bd45a696708c4f080f8ca6-257C0-257C1-257C637497759761413894-257CUnknown-257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0-253D-257C2000-26sdata-3DE7s-252F2GCv4HDChAnxRuj6uUa-252FJI0O-252BsHy67nXC9rWRsQ-253D-26reserved-3D0&d=DwMFAg&c=Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo&r=86XRfiEiz4xIoDMkFCb3Vg&m=ZM1d6taoLupFiDENizzyiO8EqtcyZgPoumqtoTTODVU&s=FE0WyQv7M_Sgzt9Bn3LFGUaAgEORZ2sULze6HdttBDE&e=>

Office address:

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1909 South Oak Street, MC-652
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