I would like to point out that the assertion:
- “Most natural history collections maintain data on their specimens in a collection management system (CMS) such as Specify, Symbiota, EMu, DarWIN or BRAHMS.”
may not be exactly true in many parts of the world. Unless you can call Excel a collection management system…
For those using CMSs, interfaces with the catalogue would be great and save people a lot of time and effort. But we should not neglect those using simple spreadsheets, for whom other solutions would be needed (the beauty of the IPT model, allowing just uploading a simple file).