ownerInsitutionCode

Term name
ownerInstitutionCode

Definition
The name (or acronym) in use by the institution having ownership of the object(s) or information referred to in the record.

Recommendation
Recommended

Guidelines
Use the registered Index Herbariorum (IH) code for the institution. If your institution does not have a registered code, it is required that you obtain one at the IH weblink below. Note that in some of the larger historical collections, there are legal reasons why integrated collections must be kept separate. Keep this in mind, when retrieving the institution code. For example, the Harvard University Herbaria contains six legal entities, all of which have their own acronyms, see examples # 3-8 below

Controlled vocabulary
Use standardized institution codes such as:

http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/
 * Herbarium codes, Index Herbariorum (IH):

http://scicoll.org/grscicoll.html
 * Scientific Collections codes, Global Registry of Scientific Collections:

Other resources
LINKS TO RESOURCES, PERHAPS WITH EXPLANATION