Specimens with Hosts

• by geckzilla

  I find it interesting that almost none of the transcriptions I have done have shown what the help text indicates as a typical example of a host label. Most often they are just like this one: A scientific name off to the side on its own label. No "ex:" and no obvious "Host:" to give it away. It's easily confused as being the scientific name for the specimen itself to an inattentive layman. I've found it useful to simply perform a search on suspect host scientific names and if it turns out to be a plant, I put it in the host input box. This one is a plum tree.

  Posted May 29, 2013 3:27 AM

• by joanball scientist

  Good point and good suggestion about finding hosts. Although I suspect not everyone will do this. We will work on making the host field more clear. Or, we might remove the host field and have a field for "Other information" where you can put anything that does not go into one of the other specified fields. Will keep you posted on this issue.

  Posted May 29, 2013 7:18 PM