Hi Becky;

 

We’re just starting with TMS here at the ROM and are creating a taxonomic thesaurus.  In order to pull up all of my Lepidoptera records I constructed the following advanced query; note the * and # are selected in the query window to pull up all records where Order = “Lepidoptera”. If I don’t select these, then the result is only one record where Order = “Lepidoptera” and no data for any lower levels, e.g. family, genus, specific epithet, etc.

 

 

 

Brad Hubley

Entomology Collection Manager

Natural History – Entomology

Royal Ontario Museum

100 Queen’s Park

TORONTO ON  M5S 2C6

CANADA

 

Phone:  1-416-586-5674

Email:  [log in to unmask]

www.rom.on.ca

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Everyone;

 

I was wondering if there was a way to search specific levels in the TMS hierarchy modules. For example, We are a natural history museum, so we have a taxonomy hierarchy that goes through kingdom to species levels. If we executed a term search through this hierarchy, it will only pull matching terms at the lowest level. This means that when searching for a term at the family level (ie Vauxiidae), it pulls only those records that have been identified to that level, and nothing identified further down the hierarchy (ie to the genus Vauxia). We are encountering similar issues with the geology module.

We had previously been using attributes which are individually searchable, but had recently decided to switch to hierarchies and so we are somewhat new to their functionality. Is searching within these hierarchies possible if the search term is embedded within the hierarchy? I’ve included the query that we use to search for these terms.

Feel free to contact me off of the listserv (email: [log in to unmask]).

 

 

 

Thanks in advance;

 

Rebecca Sanchez
Collections Assistant
Telephone: 403-820-6230 | Fax: 403-823-7131
Email: [log in to unmask]

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Box 7500 Drumheller, Alberta T0J 0Y0 Canada

www.tyrrellmuseum.com

 

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