Dear Laura

Thanks for doing that it coming along and looks pretty good. As one of the few Mineralogy Curators in the team I do have some comments though...

(1) Firstly, my name is spelt Rachel 🙂

(2) Pages 2-4 I don't think Mineralogy should be placed as a subset of Geology when it comes to specimens. The collection is so different being identified and classified using chemistry and crystal structure. ie really, really different from biological specimens. I therefore suggest the following categories

Main Category

Paleontology
Geology	Sedimentology	(I presume thats what you mean by 'loose sediment')
	Igneous Petrology
	Metamorphic Petrology	mylonites other deformed rocks
	Structural Geology
	Hydrocarbon
Mineralogy	Crystallography
	Gemmology
Extraterrestrial	Meteorites
	Impactites
	Sample Return specimens

(4) Page 5 Examples of Storage types

I would separate out radioactive specimens from asbestos form as the storage needs are so different.

Geology: Oversized specimens

: Macro-objects

: Microscope slides

: Cores

: fluids

Mineralogy : Macrospecimens

: Microsamples

: radioactive specimens

: boxed (asbesto-form) specimens

: cut/ polished Gemstones

(4) Page 6 Required minimum metadata for the discoverability of collections

Chemistry needs to feature at the same level as Time (Chronostratigraphy) as they are almost mutually exclusive.

Chronostratigraphy is important for Palaeontology and one subbranch of Geology (sedimentology) but not at all for most other collections.

Time (as in specimen age) is a valuable variable for a number of specimens (Geology (volcanic rocks (eruptions), igneous petrology), Mineralogy, and Extraterrestrial specimens (meteorites, impactites))

Chemistry is important for all branches of Mineralogy, Extraterrestrial geology and can be important to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology.

(5) Page 9 Summary

Both time (chronostratigraphy/age) AND Chemistry is important 🙂

I hope you find this is helpful rather than annoying,

Best wishes,

Rachel

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Dear colleagues,

Please find the presentation that I have made as a contribution to the
Online consultancy 'Advancing a World Catalogue of collections' run by
GBIF under the SYNTHESYS+ project.

I have put people who gave feedback as Authors - hopefully I have not
missed anyone.

I will send it to the GBIF Coordinator by the end of Tommorrow.

Presentation below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ySk7uUvUsURWQ8SImYHPbGIiFMoZkKp1/view?usp=sharing

Thank you for all your contributions they are very helpful.

best wishes and stay safe

Laura
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