====== MBPC Library ======


~~NODISCUSSION~~

This site is a repository for information about the collections
managed or processed by the
[[http://collections.nhm.org/|Marine Biodiversity Processing Center]]
of the
[[http://www.nhm.org|Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County]].

As the MBPC curated different collections, we began asking questions about proper collection care techniques. We created a Wiki to serve as a centralized location that would showcase information regarding collection care. We hope it will become a place to share collection care concerns and knowledge that could lead to meaningful experimentation and scientific inquires.

The curation of over 20 collections inspired the creation of this Wiki. A NSF Collection Support Grant ([[https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0138674|Award #0138674]]) provided the resources to process these collections. Questions regarding proper collection care techniques arose during the course of documenting, curating and databasing the over 20,000 lots from these collections.

===== MBPC topics ===== 

Please feel free to add to this list of topics.
It will be helpful if you use
[[http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:namespaces|namespaces]]((//Namespaces// are defined by putting a word followed by a colon in the link text --
click ''[Edit this page]'' to see examples in the MBPC topics list on this page.)) to keep topic files separated.

If you'd like to experiment before changing any "real" pages, please
use the [[wiki:playground]], where you can do any testing you'd like.

  * [[collections:collections]]
  * [[curation:curation]]
  * [[hazmat:hazmat]]
  * [[education:education]]
  * [[surveys:surveys]]
  * [[systems:systems]]
  * [[Types:Types]]

===== Wiki information =====

  * [[wiki:usageintro]] for using this wiki, and [[wiki:usageintermediate]]
  * [[wiki:syntax]] guide for entering text in the wiki
  * [[wiki:FAQ]] for this wiki
  * [[wiki:presentation]]
  * [[wiki:playground]] for testing wiki writing
  * [[wiki:dokuwiki|General information]] about the DokuWiki software
  * The full [[http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki%3Amanual|DokuWiki Manual]]
  * [[wiki:acronyms|Local acronym list]]