Re: Standardizing insect labels on INBio format + DataMatrix; other buyers
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:26:52 -0800 To: Daniel Janzen <djanzen@sas.upenn.edu>, pick@pick.uga.edu From: "John T. Longino" <longinoj@evergreen.edu> Subject: Re: Standardizing insect labels on INBio format + DataMatrix; other buyers Cc: sackley@compuserve.com, bill.armstrong@intermec.com, brianb@mizar.usc.edu, colwell@uconnvm.uconn.edu, christine.deal@intermec.com, whallwac@sas.upenn.edu, djanzen@sas.upenn.edu, mkaspari@ou.edu, becky_nichols@nps.gov, Chuck_Parker@nps.gov, KPerry@intermec.com, cthompso@sel.barc.usda.gov, windsord@tivoli.si.edu, dl@pick.uga.edu, longinoj@elwha.evergreen.edu, jugalde@inbio.ac.cr 2 things. First to give credit where credit due: Brian Brown designed the compact layout. I saw his labels and decided to switch the ALAS labels to that. I think it would make a delightful standard. Second, regarding Dan's comment about projects: I would suggest special project prefixes only when the project is REALLY BIG. Otherwise I recommend a project thinking about relationships with institutions where the material will eventually be deposited, and getting assigned a block of their numbers. That is how ALAS operates, using blocks of INBio numbers. Jack ****************************************************** John T. Longino Lab I, The Evergreen State College Olympia WA 98505 USA longinoj@evergreen.edu Ants of Costa Rica on the Web at http://www.evergreen.edu/ants Project ALAS at http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html ******************************************************
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