What you would like ....

[Biodiversity Collections]

"If there is anything you would like BCI to do that it doesn't do
please shout about it on this list as it will effect how we develop
things going forward...".

For herbaria, it would be really great if we could send information
either to Index herbariorum or to BCI and know that it will be
shared.
I would like to know that this and the GBIF effort to store metadata
about collections that I hear about are going to be one and the same
thing. We need to minimize the number of projects doing pretty well
the same thing (from the perspective of a collection person).
I like BCI because it has lat/lon data, and stores number of specimens
as a number besides having some other fields, and allows me to enter
information. .
I think it really bad that I was able to change entries for multiple
herbaria without telling them (I was adding lat lon data). This may
have changed - I have not looked for two years.
I would like to be able to search more easily - and download records
selected by my criteria to a csv or tab-delimited file.
I would like to be able to store information on number of specimens
imaged, databased, and georeferenced. This is in connection with the
project to digitize all US herbaria.

[rogerhyam]

Hi Mary,

Thanks for you feedback - we will take it into account.

> For herbaria, it would be really great if we could send information
> either to Index herbariorum or to BCI and know that it will be
> shared.

Reduction in duplication and further integration is top of the list.

> I would like to know that this and the GBIF effort to store metadata
> about collections that I hear about are going to be one and the same
> thing. We need to minimize the number of projects doing pretty well
> the same thing (from the perspective of a collection person).

BCI is part of the GBIF effort and will become more integrated as time
goes by.,

> I like BCI because it has lat/lon data, and stores number of specimens
> as a number besides having some other fields, and allows me to enter
> information. .

Good.

> I think it really bad that I was able to change entries for multiple
> herbaria without telling them (I was adding lat lon data). This may
> have changed - I have not looked for two years.

At the outset we (well me mainly) believed there was a requirement for
a wiki-like place to edit information along side the authoritative
sources like IH. This needs to be reviewed from the feedback we have
received.

> I would like to be able to search more easily - and download records
> selected by my criteria to a csv or tab-delimited file.

You can download the whole thing as a CSV and filter the rows you
like.

http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/static/webserves.html

Continued access as much of the data as possible in CSV dumps will be
continued.

> I would like to be able to store information on number of specimens
> imaged, databased, and georeferenced. This is in connection with the
> project to digitize all US herbaria.

Yes this would be good and will be the driver for what we do next I
think - it is certainly what interests me.

All the best,

Roger