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Cataloguer (Cataloguing)

Definition:

Observations:

1. Enter the names of all the people who documented the specimen in this field.
2. N.B.: Do not confuse the Cataloguer field with the Identifier field. The Cataloguer field contains the name of the person who documented the specimen. The Identifier field contains the name of the person who identified the specimen. It is possible, but not mandatory, for the two fields to contain the same name.

Entry rules:

1. Enter the family name, comma, space and first name.
   Example

   	Cataloguer	Lam, Trinh

2. Initials should be followed by periods.
   Example

   	Cataloguer	MacDonald, Georges E.

3. Periods and commas should be followed by a space, unless they are followed by other punctuation.
   Example

   	Cataloguer	Lorenço, Jorge, C.; Lombardo, Vincent

4. If an individual has an honorific title, enter his or her family name, comma, space, first name, comma, space and the title.
   Example

   	Cataloguer	Potvin, Joseph, Father

5. If you wish to enter two names for the same person, first enter the name by which he or she is best known, following the rules above, and add the other name in parentheses without inverting it.
   Example 1

   	Cataloguer	Dupuis, Juliette (Juliette Carrier)

   Example 2

   	Cataloguer	Saint-Stanislas, Sister, a.s.v. (Gabrielle Beaulieu)

6. This field may contain multiple entries separated by a semicolon followed by a space. Each name in the Cataloguer field should correspond to a date in the Catalogue Date field.
   Example

   A specimen was documented on September 7, 1984 by José Moleno. Richard Martin documented it again on March 2, 1992.

   	Cataloguer	Martin, Richard; Moleno, José
   	Catalogue Date	1992-03-02; 1984-09-07