July 1, 2009
Hernán has managed to design and print UPRM-INVCOL specimen barcode labels with Specify.
Hernán has managed to design and print UPRM-INVCOL specimen barcode labels with Specify.
We are now printing the unit tray labels (= species names) directly out of the Specify database.
We are now printing the unit tray labels (= species names) directly out of the Specify database.
New UPRM-INVCOL drawer labels, printed with the Datamax system.
New UPRM-INVCOL drawer labels, printed with the Datamax system.
Our recently hired collection manager - Hernán Torres Pratts - has made substantial progress with Specify.
Our recently hired collection manager - Hernán Torres Pratts - has made substantial progress with Specify.
Moisés Vargas and other summer undergraduate volunteers have helped relieve specimens from fungal attacks.
Moisés Vargas and other summer undergraduate volunteers have helped relieve specimens from fungal attacks.
The new cabinets are starting to get occupied.
The new cabinets are starting to get occupied.
Meet our new, networked Datamax I-4406 thermal transfer printer for making drawer labels, specimens labels, and barcodes.
Meet our new, networked Datamax I-4406 thermal transfer printer for making drawer labels, specimens labels, and barcodes.
June 19, 2009
Guide to Georeferencing Practices
PDF of Chapman & Wieczorek’s (2006) “Guide to Best Practices for Georeferencing”; to be used as a standard reference for UPRM-INVCOL.
June 16, 2009
Scientific Survey of Puerto Rico - Odonata
PDF of E. Broughton Klots’ (1932) monograph of the Odonata of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library).
New UPRM Invertebrate Collection (INVCOL) Logo (showing the “vaquita”, Diapreprepes abbreviatus [Linnaeus, 1758])

New UPRM Invertebrate Collection (INVCOL) Logo

(showing the “vaquita”, Diapreprepes abbreviatus [Linnaeus, 1758])

November 22, 2008
Seen here with a set of new drawers.
Seen here with a set of new drawers.
New Cabinets have arrived!
New Cabinets have arrived!
November 6, 2008

Printing Specimen Labels with Specify - Dominican Republic Edition

We have added nearly 60 Localities into Specify that correspond to material acquired during the collecting trip to the Dominican Republic in June, 2008. For each locality we have also created at least one Collecting Event, where we specify the collecting team and date, as well as habitat observations and collecting methods.

In order to accommodate the collecting methods on printed label, we have modified the Collecting Events form, changing the field “Verbatim Locality” to “CollectingMethods_short”.

DR Labels1

We have created two new Searches named DRTestLabels2 and DRTestLabels3 that correspond to the Collecting Events and information that needs to be printed on the labels. Using the search command After June 1st, 2008 (not On that date) will ensure that all labels are printed.

DR Labels2

DR Labels3

In the next step we created two Reports - Report24 and Report26, respectively (corresponding to each of the Searches). These Reports only differ in that Report24 does not have a field for collecting methods (in some case we lack such information), thus reducing the overall label height.

DR Labels4

DR Labels5

There is a handling trick in Rave Reports, in case the program shows (in the print preview) less than all labels previously selected. One must then close the Report, reopen it and go immediately to the print preview option.

October 13, 2008

Biodiversity Informatics References (incl. many PDFs)

http://www.taxondata.org/referencias/
October 11, 2008

Specify Localities, I (source for coordinates)

Adding some important information to the Locality form:
Recording information about the source of the coordinates is particularly useful in the context of geo-referencing. There are different standards in use in specimen databases, and sometimes researchers need to know whether to make corrections. We have added this field to the Localities form: