# 1.3. First step towards databasing collections (USE)

**URL:** <https://discourse.gbif.org/t/1-3-first-step-towards-databasing-collections-use/1956>\
**Category:** Collections Catalogue\
**Created:** [March 27, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/1-3-first-step-towards-databasing-collections-use/1956 "2020-03-27T09:55:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![gdadade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f04885/32.png) [@gdadade](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/gdadade)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/1-3-first-step-towards-databasing-collections-use/1956/12 "2020-04-29T07:12:50Z")

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I think the community will start using the catalogue as soon it has a strong support by the stakeholders and tools/tutorials are provided to help. Index Herbariorum is accepted in the botanical community for a long time because at some point it turned into a community convention, that herbaria must be represented there. So working on use cases and tutorials on how to provide content to the catalogue and the potential usages of this content would be very benefical to overcome obstacles.

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