Update and removal of old acronyms

[Andybentley]

I have been told by folks at the Biorepositories site that their data
will be updated to BCI and so there is no need for me to update our
institutional and collection acronyms at both sites. Any idea if and
when this is to take place? We also have a number of old acronyms
that certain of our collections are known under that we would like
deleted. How do we go about this?

I also find it strange that one cannot search by collection acronym or
geographic region on the site (only institutional acronym). Is there
any chance of getting this changed?

Thanks

Andy Bentley

Ichthyology Collection Manager/Specify Usability Lead
University of Kansas
Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center
Dyche Hall
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561
USA

Tel: (785) 864-3863
Fax: (785) 864-5335
Email: ABen...@ku.edu

[rogerhyam]

Hi Andy,

We are currently awaiting funding for the next chunk of work to
improve synchronization with other sites - such as Biorepositories and
Index Herbariorum. This was planned from the start.

You can search on the site by collection code here:

http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/search/by-code

You can browse by location here:

http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/search/by-location

All fields are indexed so a general search for a particular address
should turn up the collection you are looking for.

BCI does not track institutions separately from collections. If you
edit any collection you will see that you can add details of its host
institution including a URL. The same institution will have different
codes etc in different domains of interest.

If there is data that is wrong on the site please just log in and
change in. This won't effect the Biorepositories tabs on collection
pages - just the community edited tags.

Hope this helps,

Roger

> Email: ABent...@ku.edu