1002Individual Animal

Transactions in ZIMSAcquisitions other than Births

And Dispositions

Concept 1Single Accession

• Individual or Group is accessioned only once into ZIMS

• Subsequent transactions create Visits

Concept 2Physical and Ownership areSeparate Transactions

• Physical History• All locations animal has been held

• Ownership History• All owners who had legal title

• My Transactions• All Local transactions

P & O Terms Drive Subsequent Field Titles• Physical and Ownership

• Sender (Ownership)• Sender (Physical)

• Physical Only• Owner• Sender

• Ownership Only• Sender (Ownership)• Holder

Concept 3Transactions Between non-Species360and Species360 Members BehaveDifferently

• Non-Species360 member• No confirmation/denial

• Species360 Member• Requires confirmation/denial• Pending Transactions

• By My Institution• By Other Institution

Concept 4Automatic Search for From Another Institution

• Source Information• Institution (both Species360 and non)• Local ID

• Not Found• Complete accession screen

• Found in database• Accept it and Complete Local Information

• Taxonomy , Sex and Birth Info already recorded

• Don’t accept and complete Accession

Transactions we will cover• New accessions (not already in the database)

• From a non-Species360 member institution• Appeared• Collected from Wild• Rescued

• Transactions Between Species360 members• Dispositions• Death

What do you Accession?

• Any animal that you have physically OR have legal ownership of

• Some exceptions – native wildlife, live rock, feeder animals

• Develop a policy and stick with it

When do you Accession?

• The Accession/Visit date should be the date you either first obtained the physical animal OR the date you first got legal title to it.

• You have taken responsibility for it.• Possible exception is animals Collected From

Wild.

What if there are 50 of them?

• Batch Accession Checkbox• Edit differences later

• Sex• Birth Date

• Most information should be the same• Cannot Batch Accession From Species360

member• Take a Copy From This Animal

How about Dispositions and Deaths?

• Eventually everything you have accessioned will need to be Dispositioned either by a transaction, missing or release, or a death.

• Date should be when the event actually happened.

Any Questions?