I am just trying to figure this out for my own slide collection. Wouldn't
age, sex, and plumage be worth noting? How are skins cataloged at the Burke
and the Slater? I would think similar cataloging could be used with slides.


== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== MJCT_Hobbs at msn.com


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From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu on behalf of Rick Romea
Reply To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 7:14 AM
To: Tweeters Post
Subject: Organizing Slides

Hi Tweeters,

The Seattle Audubon Society has recently acquired a nice collection of
slides of photographs (many from D. Paulson), paintings and drawings of
birds of North America. This adds to the already large collection already
at SAS. The SAS education coordinator and I have been working on trying
to come up with an effective way to catalog the collection and create a
database. I thought we could use the four letter banding codes, rather
than arbitrary numbers, as a database 'look-up' label, and each slide
would be labeled with

(1) the four letter code
(2) common name
(3) slide number for that bird (e.g., 4th MODO slide)
(4) copy Letter (A = original, B = copy 1, etc.)
(5) photo credit
(6) SAS label

Additional information that could be included on the slide: scientific
name (but we're running out of space)

I have no experience with this sort of thing. Does anybody have any
comments or suggestions?

Rick Romea "We're gonna need a bigger boat"
Seattle, WA - Jaws

rromea at stioptronics.com
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