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John Longino - 28 July, 1999

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
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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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