Fields included in CHIN's National Inventories are identified and defined. The French language equivalent for each field is given in an appendix. In the diskette format, there is one field per page to allow for easy manipulation of the text. The Natural Sciences Data Dictionary consists of 594 fields for collections in botany, earth sciences, palaeontology, invertebrate zoology, ichthyology, herpetology, ornithology, and mammalogy. The fields are grouped under entities such as, taxonomy, dating, treatment, description, environment, storage location, and exhibit.
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