El registro digital de colecciones: un cambio significativo en la documentación de las colecciones zoológicas del Museu de...
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Title: | El registro digital de colecciones: un cambio significativo en la documentación de las colecciones zoológicas del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona (MCNB) |
Authors: | Garcia-Franquesa, Eulàlia Gago Carrión, Sergi Agulló, Jordi Caballero-López, Berta Masó, Glòria Quesada, Javier Uribe, Francesc |
Contributors: | Consorci del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona |
Issue Date: | 2-Apr-2014 |
Keywords: | Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona Museums automation Zoology |
Access to document: | http://hdl.handle.net/2072/359678 |
Citation: | Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Sección Aula, Museos y Colecciones, 1, 2014, 25-32 |
Extent: | 8 p. |
Abstract: | The zoological collection at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Barcelona (MCNB) comprises many hundreds of thousands of specimens, with many of them still waiting to be catalogued and new ones being added each year. Considering the high volume of outstanding entries to be registered, two important decisions were taken regarding the current cataloguing system. The first was to abandon the manual entry in paper books and start a digital cataloguing using an Excel spread sheet. The second was to create a Registry Unit whose job it is to assign catalogue numbers and to keep an inventory with the basic information of each specimen. Both changes were carried out in accordance with the current Catalonian laws, and modifying the format of the cataloguing system as little as possible. Both changes resulted in a significant increase in the number of specimens being catalogued each year, and they are thus considered an effective improvement to the zoological documentation. The increase in the number of specimens registered in the new digital system, means that more records are available for consultation. Keywords: Registration, Collection, Documentation, Registry unit, Digitalized collections. |
Terms of use details: | © Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural |
Appears in Collections: | Invertebrats no-Artròpodes / Articles |
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