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==Labels and Labeling== | ==Labels and Labeling== | ||
A lot of the same concerns related to barcode labels, e.g., what's printed, the label paper and ink, overall robustness, conservation issues, follows the same guidelines as for barcode labeling. Below you will find some specimen label examples kindly offered by the survey respondents. | A lot of the same concerns related to barcode labels, e.g., what's printed, the label paper and ink, overall robustness, conservation issues, follows the same guidelines as for barcode labeling. Your institution may have some provenance or archive guidelines for what specimen labels should include Common sense says a label should include at a minimum taxon identification, who collected it, their number, when, locality description, institution code, access number/catalog number, other very useful additions might be habitat description, lat and lon, and phenology. Below you will find some specimen label examples kindly offered by the survey respondents. Modern practices suggest that this information is generated in the field and conveyed electronically to the institutional database when the specimens are digitized (imaged and accessioned by the collection), ensuring that no errors are introduced by re-entering. Barcoding can also in the field. | ||
==Examples Provided By Survey Respondents== | ==Examples Provided By Survey Respondents== | ||