From @WUlate in this Spanish thread
Would the collections community benefit from a comprehensive directory of all natural history collections? Who would make use of such a directory?
Yes, if it was kept up to date (which is a laborious activity for those responsible for the Catalogue). Searching in a catalogue is difficult if the information about the collection or institution is incomplete. This would be worse if we don’t have a “unique global acronym”, or at least a single record by institution that groups all different acronyms.
[related to 2.2. Identifiers for collections (INFORMATION), and 1.8. Improvements to citation and visibility for collections (USE)]