Purpose of the Accessions Standard 2. Form of standard 3. Data areas 6. Other comments received since October 1995 8. This first report is trying to provide some structure to the discussion.
All points being made are completely open to discussion.
The first things to be decided are the purpose and the form the standard to be published, and a preliminary delimitation and subdivision of its contents. Special consideration should be given to liaison with groups which are or have been working on projects involving collection data. I included a loose list of such projects under point 6 of this report. Purpose of the Accessions Standard 1.1. Provide field content definitions for biological collection databases which facilitate access, query, and data exchange between and over different or distributed databases.