ALA Herbarium documentation

General documentation for ALA operations

Overall flow of accessioning new material and data

• Specimen processing

Obtaining metadata

• Transcribing labels
• External data

Arctos

• Arctos data model
• Modifying records, one-by-one
• Image management in Arctos: creating and deleting image links, flagging poor images
• Adding information from annotaion labels
• Using other identifiers
• Taxonomy

Photographing specimens

• Photostation

Other

• The ALA accession number (ALAAC)
• Taxonworks

Skills

• Background reading and skills development for advanced Arctos use
• Learning SQL