Do you want to know what questions will be asked, so you know the fields to
have for your collections database?  That will depend on what type of
collection you have--art, biological, historical.

We receive the following questions frequently:
What specimens we have of a particular taxon (family, genus, species)

What species we have from a given geographic region (country, state, county)
What we have that was collected by a certain person or on a certain
expedition (collector, received from, day, month, year collected)
What specimens we have of a certain species from a certain time of year
(month collected)
Biological details (weight, gonad size/condition, nest site description,
etc.)

Robin K Panza                         [log in to unmask]
Collection Manager, Section of Birds          ph:  412-622-3255
Carnegie Museum of Natural History       fax: 412-622-8837
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh  PA  15213-4008  USA


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Is there any study for information retrieval behavior of the staff, prof

I am a graduated student.

I'd like to know their pattern to suggest how to design the collection
management system...

Thank you very much.

Yueh-Chen Lai
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