where to put info such as "ex herbarium....."

[Mark Schlessman]

Greetings all,

In the Vassar herbarium we have many specimens that were gifted, e.g. from the national herbarium, or constitute a someone's personal collection, e.g. our Merrill Collection of ferns.  There doesn't seem to be an obvious place for this kind of information on the Symbiotaa occurrence template, yet being able to search for it would be very helpful to us.  Any thoughts on how to handle this?

Thanks, Mark

[Miller, Andrew Nicholas]

We use the field “Disposition” to designate collections that have been gifted to us and always use a consistent statement to allow searching, for example:

Eastern Illinois University (EIU) Fungarium donated to Illinois Natural History Survey (ILLS) on January 1, 2012

Ed has recently expanded the character limit of this field from 32 characters to 200 so your statements should fit in this field.

Best,

Andy

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[Mark Schlessman]

Thanks Andy!  Very helpful.  Best, Mark

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[James Ryan Allen]

Not trying to muddy the water, but exchange history also shows up in occurrenceRemarks on a fairly regular basis. I know that is where this info landed for our collection although that is at least in part because it was in a general "notes" field in our old database and all of our notes data was mapped to occurrenceRemarks when we ported our database.

In any case, yes this is an important piece of info that can help with tracking down duplicates and not repeating work. I have used hints like this to figure out where to mine data from other collections.

Ryan

J Ryan Allen

Project Coordinator Southern Rocky Mountain TCN

Project Manager Biodiversity Informatics

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Herbarium (COLO)

350 UCB

Boulder, CO 80309

303-492-3216

https://botanydb.colorado.edu/

http://www.soroherbaria.org/

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[Mary Barkworth]

Possibly someone should propose a new DWC term, e.g., SpecimenOrigin, to the relevant TDWG committee? 

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[James Ryan Allen]

If we are making requests, I still want to get georeferencedDate added to Symbiota. That has already been ratified.

Someday we will actually have the time to work on parsing our occurenceRemarks field into the fields they technically belong in. Right now it is a bit of a catch all.

Relevant links to DWC

https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/#dwc_disposition

https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/#dwc_occurrenceRemarks

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Project Manager Biodiversity Informatics

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Herbarium (COLO)

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Boulder, CO 80309

303-492-3216

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[Mary Barkworth]

And how about elevation uncertainty?

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