Les Collections Paléontologiques: méthodes de rangement et d'inventaire

Abstract

Palaeontological collections: methods of storage and Inventory
Since 1965, there has been in Lyon a system of computerized management of paleontological collections, which is built from a simple scheme and which manages all the collections. Seventeen items (or fields) are used to describe every article and are written on an account. The use of three codes: geography, systematic and stratigraphy allows the entry of only a limited number of signs, thereby considerably reducing the space held in the central memory of the microcomputer. These codes are automatically translated by the micro-computer at the time of the query and appear in clear. Each code is illustrated in the text and is followed by its translation. The file of French and foreign paleontological fields accompanies the computerized management and a precise example is given in this article. The index regroups all the data about the field: description, facies, etc… Lastly, this article describes the account for the entry of data use at the national level during the inventory of speciments with a status of “type” or “figured”.