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What should be the basis of record for a preserved specimen which has been discarded? #145

Open ManonGros opened 4 years ago

ManonGros commented 4 years ago

Should the basis of record remain PreservedSpecimen with "discarded" in the disposition term?

Jegelewicz commented 4 years ago

That is how specimens in Arctos would appear. I can see how that might be misleading because there is now no specimen, but it does give all the facts that let a person know there was a specimen at one time (and perhaps there are remnants of it somewhere?)

tucotuco commented 4 years ago

I agree with this recommendation.

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 2:28 PM Teresa Mayfield-Meyer < notifications@github.com> wrote:

That is how specimens in Arctos would appear. I can see how that might be misleading because there is now no specimen, but it does give all the facts that let a person know there was a specimen at one time (and perhaps there are remnants of it somewhere?)

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Archilegt commented 4 years ago

I agree with keeping "preservedSpecimen" even when the specimen is discarded. This value refers to the source of the original occurrence. This is also the situation when doing reverse-digitization. Some collections may want to register in their database legacy literature or catalog records, even if the original specimens do not exist anymore or are unrecognizable because the labels faded or... or... For example, many myriapodological collections are not databased but a few have published catalogs (1862, 1904, etc.). Some myriapodological collections were destroyed by war but their unpublished catalogs survived. Some have loan papers recording specimens that were destroyed by fire at the MNRJ, 2018. In a comprehensive digitization effort, both existing specimens and unmatched printed and written records may be databased as "preservedSpecimen". Reverse-digitization does not change the fact that the recorded occurrence was based on preserved specimens.