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7 months ago Suggested task: creating a new collection for the Algal herbarium in Specify, (like the Vascular Plants and and the Biocultural Collections) under the same Botany discipline.
Interpretation of fields: • MusnrCorr – alternative catalogue number • Land - Country • Lokalitet - Locality • Koordinat - Coordinates • Dybde – Depth (in m) • Artnavn – Scientific name • Corrdato – Collection date • Leg - Collector • Kodenr – Collector number • Det – Determiner
Suggestion regarding to unique identifier: Keeping the Musnr as a unique identifier the same way it exists now (C-A-123456) as an alternative catalogue number. Assigning NHMD numbers to the objects. As it’s not a viable option to use the NHMD number only internally, we should publish them as well, along with the Musnr, just like we did with the type specimens.
Label: noted. We’ll create a template, when we'll get input.
Further questions: • Aren’t there any second determinations in this dataset? • Wouldn’t you like to add storage information to the occurrences? • Aren’t there any references this time? • What are the preparation types of these objects? • Any field notes to register? • Any type specimen within the dataset? • Could you provide higher taxonomy for these species or should we gather the information?
First version of the dataset has arrived, with the following message: FaroeAlgaeExport (003).xlsx
"Data is a part of the general algae herbarium database, so I do not want it to be some sort of separate dataset. When Specify is able to be used as a daily working tool for live datasets, the rest of the algae data should be in the same structure .
You can probably figure the data structure out from the data; the Faroese data are relatively uncomplicated. Kodenr is collectors number, I think it is the only one that are not self-explanatory. In this dataset and all other following from me, the Musnr = museum number, is the important unique identifier, the number on the specimens. This has to be the number presented as the specimen identifier to outside users. You are welcome to give it an NHMD number, but this is only to be an internal used number, not a published number. And the number is all of it, C-A-123456, not just the ciphers! I do not need to be able to print labels for this part of data, so you do not need to set up a label layout yet, but I shall send you an example of how a label should look like in general for my collections, so you can get that into specify. "