Object Name:Specimen
| | Description: Holds information and data indigenous to a particular MorphBank specimen. Based on Darwin Core version 2.0 with one addition (developmentalStage field). Location information, sex and taxonomic information are represented in separate tables; Location, Sex and Taxonomic_Units respectively
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Primary Key:id
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| Attribute Name: id | Type: Character | This is the id inherited from BaseObject. Other fields, for instance userId and groupId, are also inhered from the BaseObject (see specification of BaseObject).
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| Attribute Name: basisOfRecord | Type: Character | An abbreviation indicating whether the record represents an observation (O), living organism (L), specimen (S), germplasm/seed (G), etc.
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| Attribute Name: sexId | Type: Character | The sex of a specimen.
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| Attribute Name: preparationType | Type: Character | The type of preparation (skin. slide, etc).
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| Attribute Name: individualCount | Type: Integer | The number of individuals present in the lot or container. Not an estimate of abundance or density at the collecting locality.
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| Attribute Name: developmentalStage | Type: Character | The developmental stage of the specimen. For insects, relevant values might be “egg”, “larva”, “pupa” and “adult”, or “egg”, “first-instar larva”, “second-instar larva”, “prepupa” etc. For other organisms other expressions are used to denote the developmental stage of the specimen.
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| Attribute Name: institutionCode | Type: Character | A "standard" code identifier that identifies the institution to which the collection belongs. No global registry exists for assigning institutional codes. Use the code that is "standard" in your discipline.
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| Attribute Name: collectionCode | Type: Character | A unique alphanumeric value which identifies the collection within the institution.
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| Attribute Name: catalogNumber | Type: Character | A unique alphanumeric value which identifies an individual record within the collection. It is recommended that this value provides a key by which the actual specimen can be identified. If the specimen has several items such as various types of preparation, this value should identify the individual component of the specimen.
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| Attribute Name: previousCatalogNumber | Type: Character | The previous (fully qualified) catalogue number of the Catalogued Item if the item earlier identified by another Catalogue Number, either in the current catalogue or another Institution / catalogue. A fully qualified Catalogue Number is preceded by Institution Code and Collection Code, with a space separating each sub-element. Referencing a previous Catalogue Number does not imply that a record for the referenced item is or is not present in the corresponding catalogue, or even that the referenced catalogue still exists. This access point is intended to provide a way to retrieve this record by a previously used identifier, which may be used in the literature. In future versions of this schema this attribute should be set-valued.
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| Attribute Name: relatedCatalogItem | Type: Character | The fully qualified identifier of a related Catalogue Item (a reference to another specimen); Institution Code, Collection Code, and Catalogue Number of the related Catalogued Item, where a space separates the three sub-elements.
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| Attribute Name: relationshipType | Type: Character | A named or coded valued that identifies the kind relationship between this Collection Item and the referenced Collection Item. Named values include: "parasite of", "epiphyte on", "progeny of", etc. In future versions of this schema this attribute should be set-valued.
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| Attribute Name: collectionNumber | Type: Character | An identifying "number" (really a string) applied to specimens (in some disciplines) at the time of collection. Establishes a link between different parts/preparations of a single specimen and between field notes and the specimen.
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| Attribute Name: collectorName | Type: Character | Identity of the person or group collecting the specimen
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| Attribute Name: dateCollected | Type: Timestamp | Date the specimen was collected
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| Attribute Name: locationId | Type: Character | The MorphBank Object ID of the location where the specimen was collected.
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| Attribute Name: notes | Type: Character | Free entry notes on the specimen.
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