Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Butterflies & metadata

From: "Beacom, Matthew" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:14:59 -0500

A search for Lepidoptera as a taxon name in the Yale Peabody Musuem's entomology catalog (see http://research.yale.edu/peabody/COLLECTIONS/ent/ ) retrieves 209 hits. 

The metadata for the first of these specimens shown below.

YPM 10163  
Taxon Name.......... Lepidoptera 
Locality............ Asia. India. 
LatLon..............  
Collected........... Raine. 1899. 
Higher Ranks........ Animalia; Arthropoda; Hexapoda; Insecta; Pterygota; Endopterygota; Lepidoptera 
Common Name.........  
Other Attributes.... male; Denton mount (glass) 

The metadata for naturual history materials in the Yale Peabody collections follow the Darwin Core standard. See http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/index.htm

Matthew Beacom

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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] LIBER Quarterly Article on Europeana

Quoting Thomas Krichel <[email-masked]>:

>   Weinheimer Jim quotes Rick Erway
>
>> The reason is that a butterfly specimen has entirely different
>> metadata than a painting of a butterfly.
>
>   A butterfly specimen has no metadata since the specimen is not
>   data.
>
>   Cheers,
>
>   Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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>