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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/17/15 3:16 PM, Brown, Matthew A
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<pre wrap="">Are you really going to take the time to go back through your collections - every item! - to determine what came from DOI-managed public lands - ever - even though not georeferenced that precisely at the time collected, even though the exact site may or may not have been DOI-managed public land at the time?
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Um... yes. I'd be a pretty poor steward if I couldn't be accountable for what my institution holds in our public trust collections.
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Matthew: do you have over 3 million specimens in your collection
that have not yet been databased or georeferenced? WE do. We've done
databasing of legacy material, and it takes about 10 minutes per
specimen, allowing for a high proportion of duplicate records. It
would therefore take approximately 250 years for a full-time
technician to database the entire holdings here, assuming we add no
new material over that time. I've been here 15 years, and have
managed to add unique numbers to about 10% of our holdings in that
time, only a fraction of those with complete data capture. Does that
mean I'm a poor steward, or <b>could it possibly be</b> that the
proposed regulations are unreasonable when applied to all types of
collections, especially arthropods? Given that arthropods comprise
something like 99% of biodiversity on US public lands, I think the
negative impact on arthropod collections is a bit more significant
in the grand scheme, no?<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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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)
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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82</pre>
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