Re: Barcodes on insect specimens
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:14:59 -0800
To: "James S. Ashe" <ashe@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>,
John Pickering <pick@pick.uga.edu>
From: "John T. Longino" <longinoj@evergreen.edu>
Subject: Re: Barcodes on insect specimens
Cc: sackley@compuserve.com, brianb@mizar.usc.edu, colwell@uconnvm.uconn.edu,
christine.deal@intermec.com, faulzeitler@ascoll.org,
Furth.David@NMNH.SI.EDU, whallwac@sas.upenn.edu, djanzen@sas.upenn.edu,
Johnson.2@osu.edu, mkaspari@ou.edu, scottm@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org,
becky_nichols@nps.gov, Chuck_Parker@nps.gov, msharkey@byron.ca.uky.edu,
cthompso@sel.barc.usda.gov, jugalde@euclea.inbio.ac.cr,
pin93001@uconnvm.uconn.edu, windsord@tivoli.si.edu,
"James S. Ashe" <ashe@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>,
Rob Brooks <ksem@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Steve,
Thank you so much for your letter regarding barcodes; it was all so
rational and reasonable. I just wish I had known about your approach
5 years ago! This is why I think we need a Web page or something that
is a central clearing house, where people can go to find out what
types of labels are being used in different institutions, ideas and
sources of software and hardware, etc. Does such a site already exist
somewhere? Would Kansas be willing to maintain such a site? Anyone
else out there interested? It seems like one of the major natural
history museums would be the logical place for such a site.
Could you send me some more details on the layout of your labels and
how you produce them? I've been trying to learn about "x-dimensions"
and "mils" and those sorts of things related to keeping barcodes
small.
Jack
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Olympia WA 98505 USA
longinoj@evergreen.edu
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