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A report for the Entomological Collections Network
First Annual Meeting
1 December 1990
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana



Ronald A. Hellenthal
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, INDIANA 46556

Jerry Louton
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 20560

Gerald R. Noonan
Milwaukee Public Museum Milwaukee, WISCONSIN 53233

Randall T. Schuh
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NEW YORK 10024

Margaret K. Thayer
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, ILLINOIS 60606

F. Christian Thompson, Coordinator
Systematic Entomology Lab., ABS. USDA. Washington, D. C. 20560

CONTENTS

1. Introduction THOMPSON
2. Justification for Literature Inventories SCHUH
3. Justification of collection-based name capture THAYER
4. Proposed Model and Database file structures for Arthropod
collection management		 HELLENTHAL & LOUTON
5. Standard fields and terms for ecological and geographical data
on arthropod		 NOONAN & THAYER
6. Standard data elements for classification and nomenclature THOMPSON
7. Proposed Data Exchange Standard for Arthropod Collections HELLENTHAL





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