[Nhcoll-l] Uploading collection catalogs online

[Bentley, Andrew Charles]

Mereia

The only taxa for which this really makes any sense are herbaria and paleo where the locality of an organism is a little problematic - in the case of herbaria because they do not collect the whole specimen and in the case of paleo because there are problems with people stealing fossils from known localities to sell.

Specify software has documentation regarding possible cleanup exercises to perform on data before publishing on their website under documentation.  I think it is a good idea to do some rudimentary cleanup of certain pieces of data before publishing to facilitate searching, to ensure that your data conforms to Darwin Core standards and those of your discipline...

Andy

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From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Mireia Beas-Moix
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 11:02 AM
To: NHColl
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Uploading collection catalogs online

Hello,

I have a question for curators who have uploaded their specimen records to an online database. Did you clean your data and hide information for particular specimens, species or localities?  For example, you may want to block access to the geographic coordinates for the locality of an endangered species.

Thank you!

Mireia




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Mireia Beas Moix
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Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
University of California Santa Barbara
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Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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