Hi Elizabeth and List, I am a dinosaur and I use WordPad documents for all of my records, including my personal collection catalogue. I keep them backed up on two different USB thumb-drives, just in case my netbook crashes.
I list the my personal catalogue reference number, the meteorite name, type, specimen weight, specimen physical description (brief), who I acquired it from, when I acquired it, and what I paid for it. Also, if I later sell that specimen, I make a note of who bought it, when, and how much I sold it for. I also have photographs of all of my specimens on hard-drive and thumbdrive. Recently, I started keeping a backup record on the Encyclopedia of Meteorites website. Best regards, MikeG On 3/19/10, Richard Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Elizabeth. > > I'm not using anything more fancy than Open Office's "Calc", the freeware > spreadsheet. > > The fields I use are: > > Meteorite Name > Classification > Weight / Form > Notes > Price Paid > Price/Gram > Dealer > Date Purchased > > Most are self explanatory save for maybe the "weight / form". Form is micro, > part slice, full slice, fragment, individual. > > Maybe not all the details that other may want, but it works for me. I don't > include images of my specimens, but it would be easy enough to add this to > the data if I so desired. > > I'm still pretty new too, seriously collecting for less than a year. 106 in > the collection and one more currently on the way. > > Richard Kowalski > > > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites http://www.galactic-stone.com http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone ------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
