barcodes

[Brian Brown]

>I do that anyway.  I enter data for new specimens, with defaulting and
>dittoing when useful (less frequently such a big issue with birds as with
>malaise samples, granted, but useful at times), and the computer prints out
>a human-readable label from the catalogue database.  How is producing a bar
>code label tremendously faster or more accurate?

You presumably work with tens or at most hundreds of birds. We work with
thousands to tens of thousands of insects.
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