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<p>Hi Angela & Co</p>
<p>I cannot comment on fish. But this is a common case in botany.
It is about so-called <b>multi-gatherings</b>. It happens that
on one herbarium sheet several specimens may have been attached.
Which may belong to different species (!). When we digitize
these, what do we do?</p>
<p>My first advice is to split them apart and attach them to
different sheets. But that is a bit risky and could lead to a loss
of the gathering history. <br>
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<p>What we do in practice is to attach on the herbarium sheet
multiple identifiers (on QR codes). None of the original
identifiers will be repeated but all will be preserved. In other
words, each specimen can carry multiple identifiers. This is not
difficult, but normal in a situation when an old (unsorted)
collection is being digitized. I do not know if this would work
for fish (in liquid jars).<br>
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<p>So my advice is abandon all old identifiers and assign a new
identifier for each newly digitized specimen. But also do keep
the old identifier. Every specimen can carry multiple
identifiers.<br>
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<p>Thanks for a good question. We meet this every day when
digitizing an old herbarium.</p>
<p>Hannu, <br>
CEO of Bioshare Digitization, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.bioshare.com">www.bioshare.com</a><br>
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<div>We have a fish lot that was originally IDed to genus and
cataloged as such. A researcher has followed up and IDed all
individuals to species, splitting cleanly into new lots. Is
there a standard guiding which (if any) of these new lots
should carry the original catalog number and which should
receive a new one? This catalog series is strictly integers,
so I can't assign 123A, 123B, etc. without changing the series
format and affecting other things (working in Arctos).</div>
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<div>Thanks for your thoughts.</div>
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