I also have a fairly mixed collection.  Past Perfect is great at
documents, photos, books, art, and history/archaology collections, but
it is a bit of a stretch to fit the natural history collections.  I have
been able to make it work by "Specimen" in the various subcategorizes of
"T&E for Science and Technology" and using genus and species in the
"Other Name" field.  If I had a larger natural history collection, I
would probably use different collection names and create user defined
fields for the scientific names.

paul c wrote:
>
> We are a small museum in the UK who have recently begun a retrospective
> documentation and cataloguing project, using Past Perfect. As our collection
> is quite mixed and often requires scientific hierarchial name terms, we are
> wondering what the conventions ought to be to document, fossils, prehistoric
> artifacts, local social history objects, geological specimens etc, and what
> other museums are doing in this area? I would be happy to hear from any
> other museum using Past Perfect as to what you are doing, either on list or
> off. our address is [log in to unmask] thanks to anyone who can
> help,
> Paul Connell
>

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