Hi Laura,

    I agree with what’s been written so far. Just one comment regarding ‘, COLLECTOR NAME’ – this may conflict with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in case the collector is still alive.

Have a nice weekend,

Steffen

From: cetaf_earthsc@cetaf.simplelists.com <cetaf_earthsc@cetaf.simplelists.com> On Behalf Of Charalampos Fassoulas
Sent: den 3 april 2020 15:26
To: cetaf_earthsc@cetaf.simplelists.com
Subject: Re: AW: [CETAF_ESG] requesting your knowledge on ES collections.

Dear All

Jiri's comments covered also me. I think these info are ok for the needs.

With greetings

Babbis Fassoulas

On 3/4/2020 10:53 π.μ., Rasser, Michael W. wrote:

For some reason, my answer a few minutes ago was missing the subject line. In order to avoid confusion, I am re-sending it with the subject header. Sorry for this.

Am Fr., 3. Apr. 2020 um 09:50 Uhr schrieb Rasser, Michael W. <michael.rasser@smns-bw.de>:

Dear Laura, below are my comments on this:

1)      How are Earth Science Collections curated and organized?  I said
mainly defined by taxonomy, geographical origin, Storage and
Stratigraphic age (based on the Synthesys classifications) Are there any
more?

I agree with Jiri that this is enough!

Just to give a comparison with Andreas' list, our collections are organised and curated not only by systematic, but they cover all of the keywords above:

Level 1:

Amber

Amphibians, Fishes, Reptiles  

Palaeobotany

Paleozoic and Triassic Invertebrates

Jurassic and Cretaceous Invertebrates

Tertiary and Quaternary Invertebates

Quaternary mammals   

Tertiary mammals  

Level 2:

Each collection is then organised by locality, stratigraphy, systematics, or a mixture of them, resp. 

2)      What is the minimum information that would be required in World
collections catalogue for the discoverability of Earth Science
collections and for a research to locate particular collections of
interest.

Not sure, if you mean discoverability of the collection itself, or of the museums objects that are housed in the respective collection. I assume that you mean discoverability of the objects:

• Taxon name (no higher taxon name needed)
• Repository number
• Stratigraphy
• Geography
• Housing institution  
• Curator / contact address

3)      What descriptive information should be considered mandatory or
desirable for each Collection?

• Name and address of institution
• Responsible curator / contact person
• Stratigraphic focus
• Systematic focus
• Geographic focus

All the best and stay healthy!

Michael

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Geologist, PhD – Laboratory Teaching Staff (EDIP)

Curator of geological collections

University of Crete – Natural History Museum of Crete

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