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Barcode field #70

Closed nielsklazenga closed 8 years ago

nielsklazenga commented 9 years ago

A while back, I raised with Miles the issue that in the majority of AVH records the catalogNumber doesn't match the barcode on the herbarium sheet (or other preparation). This poses problems for matching up duplicates, but also for finding barcodes cited in publications, or in GenBank, or even finding the AVH record for the specimens someone has on loan.

It is near impossible, and certainly not advisable, to change catalogue numbers in AVH, as they are part of the Darwin Core triplet that "uniquely" identifies the record. Miles suggested we just create a 'barcode' field. I think that is a good solution.

ben3000 commented 8 years ago

We already have a barcode field, and could thus provide this immediately.

AaronWilton commented 8 years ago

Hobart 2015-10-23: Agreed to add to PreservedSpecimen class

AaronWilton commented 8 years ago

done