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Arctos Happenings

09 October 2018

Become Part of the Arctos Community

Arctos is a growing community, with many new developments, and everyone is invited to participate. Please see below for ways you can contribute to the Arctos community and participate in ongoing discussions about improving Arctos for collections management, research, education, and outreach:

1) Subscribe to Arctos Github to be able to post and watch issues, comments, suggestions; provide and receive community input.

2) Join the Arctos Working Group is open to any participating institution; contribute to Arctos governance, development, and sustainability. We meet monthly. We need one person from each institution on the Arctos Working Group and GitHub.

3) Become an Arctos Working Group Officer! We are currently recruiting Co-Chair, Co-Treasurer, Co-Communications, and a Membership Manager. Email arctos.communications@gmail.com if you are interested.

4) Participate in outreach and webinars - help develop the Learn tab on our new website, arctosdb.org!

Arctos Feature Highlight

Search For Low-Quality Data

Arctos users are forming links between the specimens to loans, projects, Genbank records, and more on a daily basis. We bulkload specimens but do not have the time to check the hundreds of records we create. To help us find low-quality data, Arctos have several tools to help us identify records that are missing data or a link. They can be found under the Reports/Services tab under "Find Low-Quality Data."

Explore these tools to improve the quality of your data!

Disposition vs. Remark: Search catalog remarks and part remarks with a set part disposition.
Duplicate Agents: A query to locate possible duplicate agents.
GenBank Discovery Tool: Searches Genbank to identify possible Genbank records that should be linked to your specimens.
Part Usage: Brings up the part table with if it is considered a tissue, number of Arctos records using that part, and which collections are using that part.
Partless Specimens: Identifies which records in your collection do not have a part recorded.
Publication/Loan/Project/Citation Problems: Brings up publications without authors, publications without citations, projects with loans and without publications, and loans without specimens.
Undocumented Citations: Publications with lacking data, specimens with Genbank accession numbers but no citations or loan information, specimens with a citation but no loan information.

Setting a Data Quality Contact for Your Collection

Each collection needs to have a data quality contact.
To update collection contact information:
In Actros select Manage Data--> Metadata --> Manage Collection

Arctos Webinars Return

Arctos started hosting monthly webinars in collaboration with Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio). For a list of upcoming Arctos webinars or to view past webinars, visit arctosdb.org/learn/webinars/. Webinars are the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 3 p.m. EST.

Upcoming Webinars:
10/09: Geography Part I: How Arctos handles Geographical Data
11/13: Geography Part II: Georeferencing and Best Practices of Locality Management
12/11: Taxonomy
01/08: Media

Join us via Adobe Connect. Visit idigbio.org/content/arctos-webinar-series-data-entry-and-bulkloading.

Interested in participating in a webinar or have an idea for a webinar? Contact the Arctos working group at arctos-working-group@googlegroups.com.

Arctos on Instagram

Find on us Instagram under arctos_databse and see how other collections are using Arctos! We'd love it if you would contribute photos of Arctos in use in your collection. Email them to arctos.communications@gmail.com with a brief caption.

New Collections Spotlight

We'd like to Welcome The Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum into Arctos!

The Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at the University of Montana contains over 22,000 specimens of birds and mammals. It is the largest zoological collection in Montana; includes excellent representation of vertebrate biodiversity in the Northern Rocky Mountains, as well as some unique special collections from across the world. In addition to study skins and skeletal material, the museum has a growing number of tissues and photographs. The museum has been instrumental in documenting past and present distribution patterns of Montana mammals and birds and is the major repository for specimens that constitute important Montana records. The museum provides important resources for research, teaching, and educational outreach programs.

Interested in joining Arctos or know a collection that is looking for an amazing collection management solution? Have them contact the Arctos Working Group at arctos-working-group@googlegroups.com.

Arctos Newsletter

The Arctos Working Group in collaboration with the Arctos Steering Committee will be putting out a quarterly Arctos newsletter. If you have suggestions or topics you would like included in the next Arctos newsletter, submit them to the communications officer at arctos.communications@gmail.com. View past issues here.

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