Thanks @elyw. It will only make sense for these functions to be included within collection management systems if the following things are true:
- There are benefits that come to the institutions from having good current information accessible on their collections. Maybe there are parallels here with ORCID. As ORCIDs come more and more to be a useful tool for researchers to integrate and organise information on their work, it becomes more essential to have one. If collection records come to be important linkage points for information and services that matter to collections, they will become mission-critical.
- There are efficient publication pathways for collection records that can readily be integrated into the workflow of collection management systems - management of a TDWG Collection Descriptions record could make this true.