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NHMDenmark / DanSpecify

Important files regarding the Danish instance of the Specify database system for collections digitisation and management, plus placeholder for issue tracking. Guidelines, manuals and other kinds of documentations will be gathered on the wiki.
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Seidenfaden database import #301

Open Sosannah opened 1 month ago

Sosannah commented 1 month ago

"Natasha has three masters students who arrived recently and will be looking at the Seidenfaden collection. Part of their task will be cleaning up the Seidenfaden database to get it ready for Specify. But as I don’t have a lot of experience with cleaning up databases ready for specify, and it’s quite a complicated database with different types of collections, I was wondering if you a) had some guidelines I could look at and b) would have time to talk, preferably early next week, to look at our current database and advise me on what format is most likely to work. " /Hannah May Elvery

Sosannah commented 1 month ago

Kick-off meeting: 7th of October.

FileMaker exports: Export_all_taxa_04_10_2024.xlsx Seidenfaden_Database_of_Orchids_2024-04-29_Henriks_kopi.xlsx

Sosannah commented 3 days ago

Current state:

In the first phase we can import the wet specimens along with corresponding information on drawings and slides, if any. A template was created and shared with the Botany collection to achieve this.

In the following weeks I would like to create a sample dataset in the test environment to show the different possibilities we have (having the drawings and slides as preparations; showing them as separate section on the registry form; displaying them in the notes…). But in the meantime, the Master students can work on the dataset to make it ready for import (e.g. collectors, determinations with higher taxonomy, dates, elevation…).