[Nhcoll-l] software to automate database entries into tags

[Adam Rountrey]

Jaspersoft Studio (Community Edition)
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-Adam

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:41 PM Catherine Early (she/her) <cearly at smm.org>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are preparing for a digitization project where we will associate field
> data with specimens that do not currently have data tags, just field
> numbers. Because the field notes are idiosyncratic and not in a
> standardized format, we (staff) will be entering the specimen's data
> directly into our database rather than photographing standard format data
> tags that can be easily transcribed by volunteers into a database. After
> the data have been entered in the database, we would like to print data
> tags to attach to each specimen.
>
> I'm looking for a software program that can take a CSV from a specimen
> database (we use Re:discovery and do not have the resources to switch any
> time soon) and automatically populate the fields of a data tag template
> with the appropriate information from the CSV. Obviously the user would
> have to map the fields of the CSV to the field of the data tag, but once
> that is done, it would be a simple importing step then checking to make
> sure it worked. Does this kind of program exist already?
>
> Best,
> Catherine
>
>
> Catherine M. Early, PhD
>
> *she/her/hers*
>
> Barbara Brown Chair of Ornithology
>
> cearly at smm.org
>
> https://catherineearly.wixsite.com/home
>
>
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