# Discipline Hangouts **URL:** https://speciforum.org/c/discussions/24.md [Latest](https://speciforum.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://speciforum.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://speciforum.org/tags.md) --- ## [How to use the Disciplines category](https://speciforum.org/t/how-to-use-the-disciplines-category/119)
**Author:** [@Grant](https://speciforum.org/u/Grant)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/how-to-use-the-disciplines-category/119 "2022-02-22T17:02:13Z")
Share recommendations, advice, projects, workflows, data, and issues by discipline. --- ## [Reducing a Preparation's countAmt After a Loan](https://speciforum.org/t/reducing-a-preparations-countamt-after-a-loan/3759)
**Author:** [@alexis.beck](https://speciforum.org/u/alexis.beck)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2026, 5:15am UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/reducing-a-preparations-countamt-after-a-loan/3759 "2026-06-24T05:15:48Z")
In our mollusc collection, we have collection object MOLL-0102391, originally catalogued as a lot of 22 specimens preserved in alcohol and identified as Limax nyctelius. The lot was loaned to a specialist for study. Fol… --- ## [Suggested ornithology schema](https://speciforum.org/t/suggested-ornithology-schema/2730)
**Author:** [@VHough](https://speciforum.org/u/VHough)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/suggested-ornithology-schema/2730 "2025-07-29T20:25:56Z")
Hi, all, My museum is preparing to move our bird collection over to Specify, and we are interested in not only moving over the information on our physical collection as it is, but expanding and improving how we record d… --- ## [Data model, workflow and experience of a biorepository using Specify](https://speciforum.org/t/data-model-workflow-and-experience-of-a-biorepository-using-specify/2357)
**Author:** [@willem](https://speciforum.org/u/willem)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/data-model-workflow-and-experience-of-a-biorepository-using-specify/2357 "2025-03-18T08:30:04Z")
Reading the ‘Tissue & Molecular Extract Collection Management Open Discussion Notes’, from the discussion on February 12, 2025, it occurred to me that our data model, workflow and experience may be of interest. “Workfl… --- ## [Specify Spotlight: Enhancing biodiversity data management \[SPNHC-TDWG 2024\]](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-spotlight-enhancing-biodiversity-data-management-spnhc-tdwg-2024/2253)
**Author:** [@Grant](https://speciforum.org/u/Grant)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-spotlight-enhancing-biodiversity-data-management-spnhc-tdwg-2024/2253 "2025-01-13T16:01:07Z")
Spotlight Talks Time Speaker Title DOI Link 0:10 Grant Fitzsimmons Introduction 1:03 Corinna Paeper Enhancing Enterprise Collection Management: A Case Study of CSIRO’s National History Collection… --- ## [How to treat label headings (Herbarium/collection of provenance)](https://speciforum.org/t/how-to-treat-label-headings-herbarium-collection-of-provenance/1222)
**Author:** [@igranzow](https://speciforum.org/u/igranzow)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/how-to-treat-label-headings-herbarium-collection-of-provenance/1222 "2024-06-25T12:08:26Z")
A most common practice of herbaria, and many individuals for their own collections and in a variety of other, is to state "ownership”, or as the “originator” of a specimen as a heading on the label. Such specimens event… --- ## [Specify Botany Webinar: Multiple Specimens on a Sheet](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-botany-webinar-multiple-specimens-on-a-sheet/1643)
**Author:** [@Grant](https://speciforum.org/u/Grant)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2024, 9:27am UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-botany-webinar-multiple-specimens-on-a-sheet/1643 "2024-04-10T09:27:18Z")
Multiple Specimens on a Sheet Date: 2024-03-04T06:00:00Z (UTC) Host: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh In botany, a common practice historically has been to mount several different specimens on a single herbarium sheet. … --- ## [Epibionts/Haptobionts](https://speciforum.org/t/epibionts-haptobionts/1256)
**Author:** [@Plarson](https://speciforum.org/u/Plarson)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 8, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/epibionts-haptobionts/1256 "2023-08-08T15:17:04Z")
There is a new TCN currently being spun up to submit a proposal that seeks funding from the National Science Foundation to catalog the ‘incidentally caught’ organisms on/attached to the ‘main’ organisms in cataloged lots… --- ## [Combine APG IV classification within the classic Taxon tree](https://speciforum.org/t/combine-apg-iv-classification-within-the-classic-taxon-tree/1228)
**Author:** [@Eitan](https://speciforum.org/u/Eitan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/combine-apg-iv-classification-within-the-classic-taxon-tree/1228 "2023-07-03T01:03:20Z")
For our Botanic garden collection, I’m looking for a way to maintain a single Taxon tree for the two classification approaches - the classic and the Clade-based APG IV. The solution that I choose has three points: Lab… --- ## [Specify Spotlight: Mollusks at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-spotlight-mollusks-at-the-bailey-matthews-national-shell-museum/911)
**Author:** [@Grant](https://speciforum.org/u/Grant)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-spotlight-mollusks-at-the-bailey-matthews-national-shell-museum/911 "2022-12-01T18:01:56Z")
--- ## [Best practice to handle destructive sample(s) on a preparation?](https://speciforum.org/t/best-practice-to-handle-destructive-sample-s-on-a-preparation/892)
**Author:** [@pverley](https://speciforum.org/u/pverley)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2022, 9:21am UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/best-practice-to-handle-destructive-sample-s-on-a-preparation/892 "2022-12-01T09:21:20Z")
Specify Spotlight from RGBE (16/11/2022) showed that some of you (E, DAO, RJB) are using additional preparations to keep track of destructive samples on existing preparations attached to a collection object. I’m in the … --- ## [Specify Spotlight: Botany at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-spotlight-botany-at-the-royal-botanic-garden-edinburgh/881)
**Author:** [@Grant](https://speciforum.org/u/Grant)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-spotlight-botany-at-the-royal-botanic-garden-edinburgh/881 "2022-11-17T01:16:27Z")
Special thanks to the amazing team at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh! @Ben, @ehaston, @rcubey, @rdrinkwater --- ## [Specify Spotlight: Ichthyology at the University of Kansas](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-spotlight-ichthyology-at-the-university-of-kansas/801)
**Author:** [@Grant](https://speciforum.org/u/Grant)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/specify-spotlight-ichthyology-at-the-university-of-kansas/801 "2022-10-10T13:20:58Z")
--- ## [Open Nomenclature](https://speciforum.org/t/open-nomenclature/566)
**Author:** [@pip.brewer](https://speciforum.org/u/pip.brewer)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://speciforum.org/t/open-nomenclature/566 "2022-09-24T02:20:18Z")
Just wondering how others have incorporated Open Nomenclature into their Specify system? I was thinking that linking to the relevant taxon in the taxon tree and having that data duplicated in another field (this is the n…