Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections September 2016 - 21

Announcements metadata resource for biodiversity collections, the institutions that contain them, and associated staff members. The registry provides contact and address information, characteristics of the institutions and collections using controlled vocabularies and free-text descripitons, links to related websites, unique identifiers for each institution and collection record, text fields for loan and use policies, and a variety of other descriptors. Each institution record includes an "institutionCode" that must be unique, and each collection record must have a "collectionCode" that is unique within that institution. The registry is populated with records imported from the largest similar registries and more can be harmonized and added. Doing so will require community input and curation and would produce a truly comprehensive and unifying information resource. Imaged: 25mm long minnow with ingested shell. Kodex provides very high resolution digital x‐ray imaging systems for new turnkey projects to retrofitting existing x‐ray installations with the latest in computed radiographic or direct radiographic technology at an affordable cost. Contact us for sample imaging or quote at: Kodex, Inc. 160 Park Avenue, Nutley, NJ 07110 800‐325‐6339 ‐ 973‐235‐0606 or kodex@kodexray.com www.kodexray.com Contact: Kodex, Inc. X‐Ray Associates East LLC 160 Park Avenue Nutley, NJ 07110 USA Tel. 973‐235‐0606 Fax. 973‐235‐0132 Email: kodex@kodexray.com Attn: Gary Korkala Publications of Interest The Citations Subcommittee attempts to gather publications, both to aid those who don't always have time to check for themselves, and for those who do not know where to look, or do not have easy library access. As such, we are working on trying to be more inclusive and increase the value of the citations by making them more accessible to anyone interested in care and preservation of natural history specimens. in the last six months), continues with these "highlights" in the newsletter, and our more detailed version in a PDF on the website, thereby maintaining a published listing as requested. Highlights of this bi-annual gathering describe the importance of collections and natural history, needs for curation, digitization, conservation and archive efforts, and projects associated with natural history museums. Check them out at http://www.spnhc.org/80/citations. As citations are gathered, we annotate them with statements summarizing highlights in order to call attention to more important aspects of the articles (or cautions about possibly outdated information that may be included), and also to aid in searches. We hope this increases the value of the citations listings by making them more accessible, and assists in finding the most up-to-date practices (as well as maintaining a resource to check for past techniques/ thoughts) to anyone interested in care and preservation of natural history specimens. We hope you find some useful publications among the listings on the SPNHC website. Our tradition of a published bi-annual gathering and reporting of citations (what has been published or gathered Respectfully Submitted, Margaret Landis, Citations Subcommittee Chair Are you interested in helping the SPNHC Citations Subcommittee? We are always looking for references/ publications/citations on topics of natural history collections care regardless of the source. Please submit them to our chair, or volunteer to help with specific journals to check once they are published. If you have questions or concerns please contact the the chair at paleocatstar@ ou.edu September 2016 * 21 http://www.kodexray.com http://www.spnhc.org/80/citations

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