A search for Lepidoptera as a taxon name in the Yale Peabody Musuem's entomology catalog (see http://research.yale.edu/peabody/COLLECTIONS/ent/ ) retrieves 209 hits.
The metadata for the first of these specimens shown below.
YPM 10163
Taxon Name.......... Lepidoptera
Locality............ Asia. India.
LatLon..............
Collected........... Raine. 1899.
Higher Ranks........ Animalia; Arthropoda; Hexapoda; Insecta; Pterygota; Endopterygota; Lepidoptera
Common Name.........
Other Attributes.... male; Denton mount (glass)
The metadata for naturual history materials in the Yale Peabody collections follow the Darwin Core standard. See http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/index.htm
Matthew Beacom
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Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] LIBER Quarterly Article on Europeana
Quoting Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_OPENLIB.ORG>:
> Weinheimer Jim quotes Rick Erway
>
>> The reason is that a butterfly specimen has entirely different
>> metadata than a painting of a butterfly.
>
> A butterfly specimen has no metadata since the specimen is not
> data.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
> http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
> skype: thomaskrichel
>
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