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I am beginning a new position as assistant curator of natural history collections and I find myself in need of a collections management software. I come from a museum background so this university collection is slightly newer territory. It's a biological collection
of roughly 5-7,000 specimens consisting of mammals, birds, insects, shells and fossils. It's also slowly growing. Currently all catalogue data is housed on Excel. I'd like to migrate the data to a natural history specific software. I'm aware of Arctos, Specify,
EMu, Rediscovery and Past Perfect. I'm looking for opinions/suggestions of what might be the best fit for my collection long term. The curator would also like the data to eventually be sent to VertNet/iDigBio. We're open to both open source and proprietary
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Warmest regards, </div>
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Madeline Walicek<br>
Abilene Christian University <br>
Assistant Curator of Natural History Collections <br>
Biology Department <br>
c. 512.227.2152<br>
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