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ASC 1993 ERD

Stan Blum edited this page Oct 8, 2021 · 9 revisions

Association of Systematics Collections (ASC) Information Model for Biological Collections (1993).

An entity-relationship diagram (ERD) showing the main concepts in an information model for biological collections.

The ERD uses a common crows-foot (and hatching) notation to show the cardinalities at each end of the relationship. This diagram also uses the subtyping (subclassing) convention to show, for example, that "bulk-sample", "lot", "specimen" are among the kinds of "collection-object."