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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Emily,<br>
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this is surely a useful approach e.g. if you aim to individualise
tissued specimens; we currently have > 20,000 individualised
specimens in our jars.<br>
<br>
However, your database should be capable to manage your jar based
specimen entries and associated individuals / individualised parts
thereof (which usually are stored at different locations, e.g.
tissues in - 25°C and DNAs in -80°C or other deep freezing units).<br>
<br>
It is not in all cases useful to apply tags to all specimens,
especially if they are too small or delicate, because hard labels,
thus as thermal ribbon based labels, potentially damage fins or
scales. Also, such labels are very difficult to apply to specimens
below 3 cm total length. We prefer paper based gill labels, one
the one hand to avoid any (potential) deterioration issues of
plastics in alcohol, on the other to limit potential damage to
specimens (especially if specimens are crowding inside jars).<br>
<br>
The other option to individualise specimens would be to separate
them into sufficient large, tight closing high-quality centrifuge
tubes (minimum 50 ml total volume) , which should be sealed with
parafilm and then be placed into glass jars, to create a
controlled / closed micro-environment inside the jar (because
PE-tubes are highly permeable for oxygen and other gases). Smaller
voucher specimens should be stored in tissue tubes in frozen
condition. If there are additional specimens from the same
collection event for example stored in your main collection, you
could link them relationally in your database to increase
searchability.<br>
<br>
As Andrew already pointed out it is useful to have a full record
of individual (tissue) numbers included in jars on the respective
specimen labels for those jars.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps<br>
Dirk<br>
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Am 01.08.2017 um 18:24 schrieb Emily M. Braker:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are planning to rehouse and inventory
our Herpetology collection which will include implementing a
container-level specimen tracking system. All catalog numbers
in a jar will be linked to a unique container ID to increase
findability, especially for large taxonomic series that span
multiple jars within a given geographic region.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am interested to know what other
collections have done regarding a jar numbering systems
(sequential? sequential within taxon? other?). Or, if you use
barcodes for tracking containers, have you encountered issues
with scanning through glass? We will be adding thermal labels
to each jar to replace our existing external jar tag that
lists species and locality (county-level resolution). Along
these lines, does anyone go so far as listing the catalog
numbers of specimens stored within the same jar on their
thermal labels? We are hoping to streamline the process of
searching through multiple jars and hundreds of specimens to
find the distinguished few that are requested to go on loan.
I’d welcome any suggestions or advice.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Emily<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Emily
Braker</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Vertebrate
Collections Manager, Zoology Section</span><span
style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">University
of Colorado Museum of Natural History</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">265
UCB, Bruce Curtis Building</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Boulder,
CO 80309-0218</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F">Phone:
303-492-8466</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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