Gary Acord wrote:

> Right.  i'm am trying to determine if there is a barcode standard that is
> generally used more than others within the museum community.  for the very
> purpose of interoperability.  i would like  to be sure that a barcode label
> on one of my pieces could be read by most other institutions.

    Ah, then in that case, the answer would probably be no and your subsequent question is more valid. Any bar code reader can read the bar code, but if you are entering data into a different database with different field parameters, the input stream will not be interpreted
correctly by your database. In the absence of uniform and standardized database formats (God forbid!) there cannot be a uniform and standardized bar code system.

    Michael A. Lewis
    Archaeology Collections Manager
    University of Alaska Museum

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