[NHCOLL-L:4034] Re: Barcodes in natural history collections

[Kent D. Perkins]

Andrew,
We use Code 39 at the University of Florida Herbarium, Florida Museum of 
Natural History.  There is a nice, but aging, overview, BarCode 
Technology for Herbarium and Museum Biological Collections: 
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/HISCOM/barcode/barcode.html

Our format is FLAS #, where FLAS is our acronym and # is a non-zero 
padded accession number.
E.g.:
FLAS 1
FLAS B1
FLAS 123456
FLAS 4567A

We also include the accession information and our institution's name on 
the bar code in readable form:
E.g.: 
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herbarium/specimens/zoom/imagezoom.asp?image=222864a1

Best wishes,
Kent

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University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS), Fla. Museum of Nat. History
379 Dickinson Hall, PO Box 110575, Gainesville, FL  32611-0575
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Bentley, Andrew Charles wrote, On 10/27/2008 4:01 PM:
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> Hi all
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> For those of you who use barcoding in your natural history collection 
> -- I am trying to find out which barcode system (type?) is the most 
> commonly used.  There are a number of different formats:
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> 2of7, 3of9, Bookland, Codabar, Code128C, Code39, EAN13, Int2of5, 
> Monarch, NW7, Std2of5, UCC128, UPCA, USD3, USD4
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> Thanks
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> Andy
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> Ichthyology Collection Manager/Specify Usability Lead
> University of Kansas
> Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center
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