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Adding External Links with the workbook:

The External links worksheet is optional and should be populated last. Use this option to link the deposited images to any external link and link any site back to MorphBank. Links may include other databases, NCBI accession numbers, location maps etc. Links may be associated with any MorphBank table, so they can appear in the SpecimenRecord, ImageRecord, LocationRecord or ViewRecord tables. This worksheet has 5 columns which are described below.

Object Type Choose from the drop-down list the Object Type for which you want to create a link. The choices are: Specimen, View, Image and Locality.

Type Description for External Link Choose from the drop-down list the Type Description for External Link. The choices in this column will change to match the Object type selected. For example: If an Object Type of Specimen, View or Locality is selected, the Type Description choices will contain the description field from that associated worksheet (Specimen-will contain the description field from the Specimen Worksheet, View-will contain the description field from the View Worksheet etc.) If an Object Type of Image is selected, the Type Description choice will be the image_file name .

Type of External Link Choose the Type of External Link from the drop-down list. The choices are Google map for Locality object and GenBank for Specimen object. For adding new types of external links like University collections, refer to the Supporting Data worksheet and add the desired entry.

Label for External Link Type in a short descriptive label. This label is the name of the link that will appear on the MorphBank record page. Appropriate labels would include the

-- KatjaSeltmann - 07 Nov 2006

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