AVH help page - additional fields

Curation
This page will allow herbarium curators to query on curatorial fields. Record update date is currently available for searching, but other fields are still under development.

Duplicate specimens at
Herbaria to which duplicate specimens have been sent. Institutions are listed by Index Herbariorum code.

Loan job number
The unique insitutional loan number used to identify a loan.

Loan job number is currently provided by AD and CANB.

Loan item (specimen) number
The sequence of an individual specimen within a loan. Not all herbaria assign loan item numbers to specimens.

Loan item number is currently provided by AD and CANB.

Exchange job number
The unique institutional loan number used to identify a loan.

No herbaria are currently providing exchange job number.

Exchange item number
The unique number assigned to a specimen with an exchange transaction. Not all herbaria assign exchange item numbers to specimens.

No herbaria are currently providing exchange item number.

Donor
The Index Herbariorum code of the institution from which the accessioned specimen was obtained.

Donor institution data is currently provided CANB and NSW.

Donor accession number
The accession number used at the institution that donated the specimen.

Donor accession number is currently provided by CANB and NSW.

Type
The following type statuses are used in the AVH:


 * EPI (epitype)
 * HOLO (holotype)
 * ISO (isotype)
 * ISOLECTO (isolectotype)
 * ISONEO (isoneotype)
 * ISOPARA (isoparatype)
 * ISOSYN (isosyntype)
 * KLEPTO (kleptotype)
 * LECTO (lectotype)
 * NEO (neotype)
 * PARA (paratype)
 * PARALECTO (paralectotype)
 * ISOSYN (isosyntype)
 * KLEPTO (kleptotype)
 * LECTO (lectotype)
 * NEO (neotype)
 * PARA (paratype)
 * PARALECTO (paralectotype)
 * SYN (syntype)
 * TOPO (topotype)
 * TYPE (unspecified type material)

Not all herbaria use all type status categories, and some herbaria abbreviate type status to just the prefix, so you will get more accurate results by using just the prefix followed by a wildcard (%). Include a wildcard before the prefix if you want to include uncertain types (which are sometimes preceded by a question mark) in your query.

Validation level
To be added

Record creation date
The date that the record was created at the source institution.

This data is currently provided by AD and CANB.

Centroid query
The centroid query allows you to query for records within a specified distance of a given point. You can define a query either as a distance in minutes from a point of latitude and longitude, or as a distance in metres from a Map Grid Australia reference.