[Nhcoll-l] Barcodes and accession numbers

Wed Feb 24 12:16:12 EST 2021

Andy & all

Would be useful to know what are you putting in your barcode number.  
Web address, UUID, or something similar?

In any case, I hope you (and you all) do not anymore write data into 
traditional 1-dimensional barcodes.  When digitizing your collection 
1-dimensional barcodes take excessive computing time to detect and 
decipher.  Besides, they can easily be printed wrongly, start or end 
bars missing, too much or too little ink, no error correction.   Please 
only use QR codes, thank you,

Hannu

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On 2021-02-24 18:01, Miller, Andrew Nicholas wrote:
> My apologies for not being clear.  We will keep all old accession 
> (serial) numbers in our databases.  We will just stop assigning new 
> numbers to specimens and only assign a barcode number.
>
> Thanks for all the great opinions!
>
> Andy
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> Andrew Miller, Ph.D.
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> University of Illinois
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> *To:* Thomas Labedz <tlabedz1 at unl.edu>; Callomon,Paul 
> <prc44 at drexel.edu>; Miller, Andrew Nicholas <amiller7 at illinois.edu>; 
> nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu <nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: Barcodes and accession numbers
> Scientific publications may reference the old number?
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> Robert C. Faucett
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> Ornithology
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> *From:* Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of 
> Thomas Labedz <tlabedz1 at unl.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 24, 2021 7:41 AM
> *To:* Callomon,Paul <prc44 at drexel.edu>; Miller, Andrew Nicholas 
> <amiller7 at illinois.edu>; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu 
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> *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] Barcodes and accession numbers
>
> In my training the term “accession number” historically applied in 
> herbarium situations meant the same as the unique “catalog number” in 
> non-herbarium collections.
>
> I might be wrestling with the same issue in coming years.
>
> Thomas Labedz, Univ. Nebr. State Museum
>
> Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
>
> *From:* Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> *On Behalf Of 
> *Callomon,Paul
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 24, 2021 9:29 AM
> *To:* Miller, Andrew Nicholas <amiller7 at illinois.edu>; 
> nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] Barcodes and accession numbers
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> Non-NU Email
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> Accession codes, as Andy Bentley points out, normally record the legal 
> transfer of rights to a defined collection or batch of specimens. 
> However, what you mean might be closer to a “serial number”. It is 
> advantageous for every lot to have a unique serial number in the 
> database, as catalog numbers can be duplicates. We have about 15,000 
> duplicate pairs of catalog numbers out of just over 500,000 records in 
> the Malacology database. Each record has a unique serial number, 
> though, so the pairs don’t cause sorting anomalies or other such 
> problems. They will get resolved one by one…
>
> Paul Callomon
>
> Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates
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> *From:* Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu 
> <mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu>> *On Behalf Of *Miller, 
> Andrew Nicholas
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 24, 2021 10:06 AM
> *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu <mailto:nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>
> *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Barcodes and accession numbers
>
> *External.*
>
> Now that we are barcoding our herbarium specimens, we are thinking 
> about dropping our historical method of assigning internal accession 
> numbers.  Is there any reason to keep both numbers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>
> –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
>
> Andrew Miller, Ph.D.
>
> Mycologist and Director of the Herbarium/Fungarium
>
> University of Illinois
>
> Illinois Natural History Survey
>
> 1816 South Oak Street
>
> Champaign, IL  61820-6970
>
> phone: (217) 244-0439
>
> email: amiller7 at illinois.edu <mailto:amiller7 at illinois.edu>
>
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