Thursday, November 6, 2008

Basic specimen data requirements

ZOMG! I've just got a dead rat! I don't know or care what a Project or Loan is! This is too complicated!

Arctos has very minimalistic requirements for entering new data, all of which can be some form of "unknown." You must have an Identification ("unidentifiable" is OK), a Collector ("unknown" is OK), Geography ("no higher geography recorded" is OK), a Locality ("No specific locality recorded" is OK), and an Event ("between January first, 4.5 billion BC to the present" is OK). Everything else is optional. We would encourage Curators and Directors to have higher standards, but we will not encode more extensive requirements.

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