Fish Collection NRM
type: Dataset
description: This database contains information on the so far registered specimens in the fish collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The database is managed with The Artedian collection management system in MS-Access. The main tables describe collecting events and collection objects which are related on a one to many relationships. The database is Darwin Core compatible but uses alternative table names and includes also loan routines, document management and other components of collection management. Principal items managed are objects (catalog number, identification, number of specimens, sex size, location in collection, collection space, preservative, identifier, etc.); localities (collecting events with date, collector, geographic information including coordinates, and more), collecting site habitat; loans (with extensive metadata), accession information (date of accession, donors, acquisition conditions etc., specimen preservation progress). DNA samples are managed as subsamples of objects. Specimen and collecting site images are managed with extensive metadata. The database has a web presentation at http://artedi.nrm.se/nrmfish.
contributor: Bo Delling
contributor: Kevin Holston
contributor: Manash Shah
  type: Person
  affiliation: Swedish Museum of Natural History
creative work status: completed
  type: DefinedTerm
  in defined term set: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/dataset-status
  term code: COMPLETED
creator: Bo Delling
date modified: 2026-08-23
date published: 2012-09-21
language: English
keywords: Biological Sciences
  type: DefinedTerm
  term code: 106
keywords: preserved specimens
keywords: fish
keywords: pisces
keywords: Occurrence
keywords: Specimen
keywords: OCCURRENCE
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: Swedish Museum of Natural History
version: 0

PropertyValue
property ID: DOI
value: 10.15468/D7EITF

PropertyValue
property ID: UUID

Bo Delling
type: Person
affiliation: Swedish Museum of Natural History

Swedish Museum of Natural History
type: Organization

Kevin Holston
type: Person
affiliation: Swedish Museum of Natural History

English
type: Language
alternate name: eng