<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Hi Hannu, Joachim, Tom, and others,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks very much for your responses! I sent this call for help right before leaving for holidays so I won't have a chance to process all of the helpful information I received until I return. To your good points, Joachim and Tom, these barcodes will supplement but not replace existing tags and numbering systems on our specimens, and are mostly intended to assign true UUIDs to our specimens and to make the images automatically renamed by a camera control software that can read barcodes. Our registrar and conservator are well-versed in planning for perpetuity and are extensively involved in this process.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Best,</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Catherine</font></div><div><br></div><div><table border="0px" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><tbody><tr><td style="width:167px"><table style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://www.smm.org/" target="_blank"><img src="https://smm.org/enews/2020/footer-2020-new.png" width="167" style="display:block"></a></td><td style="padding-left:15px"><p style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(63,63,63);font-size:18px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:18px"><strong>Catherine M. Early, PhD</strong><br></p><p style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(63,63,63);font-size:14px;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18px">she/her</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18px"><font color="#3f3f3f" face="Proxima Nova, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><i>Barbara Brown Chair of Ornithology</i></span></font><br></p><p style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(63,63,63);font-size:14px;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18px">e: <a href="mailto:cearly@smm.org" target="_blank">cearly@smm.org</a></p><p style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(63,63,63);font-size:14px;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18px"><a href="https://catherineearly.wixsite.com/home" target="_blank">https://catherineearly.wixsite.com/home</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="500" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><tbody><tr><td><p style="font-family:"Proxima Nova",Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(63,63,63);font-size:12px;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:16px">We envision a world where everyone has the power to use science to make lives better,<br>and we are committed to using STEM as a tool to advocate for justice and equity.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 3:53 AM Tom Schiøtte <<a href="mailto:tschioette@snm.ku.dk">tschioette@snm.ku.dk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I agree with Joachim. The barcode technology may become obsolete, and collections with only barcodes may run the risk of becoming eternally enigmatic. For small
labels (slides, small insects etc.) you could perhaps limit the clear text to only a catalogue number, if you are VERY confident that your catalogue will be readable into the far future. A few years ago a colleague of mine had to give up on reading or translating
a punched card collection catalogue. Technologies become obsolete, the roman alphabet is likely to last for a very long time yet. Museums prepare in principle for eternity.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 17. december 2021 10:15<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:hannu@bioshare.com" target="_blank">hannu@bioshare.com</a>; <a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br>
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<p>At the risk of being old-fashioned....<br>
Barcodes should at best be a addition to classic labels and never the only labels on an specimen.<br>
You should be able to read the basic data without using a machine.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>First, abandon 1-dimensional barcodes. These are i) error prone. Human eye cannot see if the starting or stopping bar is missing. It is too easy to print such labels which look good but have been cropped from their ends. ii) 1-dimensional barcodes
plenty of space on a herbarium sheet or similar. They unusable for small insect labels. iii) When digitizing the collection, 1-dimensional barcodes (such as code39 etc) are hard to detect by machine from the images.
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<p>Only use 2-dimensional QR codes, or similar. All the problems which listed above can be avoided that way. Human eye can immediately see if the QR label has technical problems. QR codes are smaller and prettier. QR code can instantly be recognized and
read by machine from a 135 MB TIFF image.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>What you encode in the QR code is your choice. UUID is fine but needs a resolver. A web address, as recommended by the European CETAF organization may be better. I let GBIF, DiSSCo and iDigBio to comment about that.<u></u><u></u></p>
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shells, and plants, and I want to use these barcodes to assign true UUIDs (example: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uuidgenerator.net%2F&data=04%7C01%7CTSchioette%40snm.ku.dk%7Caa35a7ff51344c2d731208d9c13e0ab1%7Ca3927f91cda14696af898c9f1ceffa91%7C0%7C0%7C637753296138318798%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Ki2t2k5mnlOVOUP0JcIGCOFxb524WGvld3pCpiA13kw%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.uuidgenerator.net/</a>)
and not a sequential set of letters and numbers determined by humans. Can you recommend a barcode printer (and compatible adhesive paper) that 1) can serve in multiple storage settings (both dry and alcohol) and 2) can encode UUIDs? We would like to print
them in-house instead of sending off for someone else to print them for us as we will need to print duplicates when we find different preparations of the same specimen (e.g., skeleton, skin, soft tissues) in different parts of our collection.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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