Occurrence

The Plant Resources Center (TEX) TORCH Collection

Latest version published on 25 March 2024
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Publication date:
25 March 2024
Published by:
No organisation
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

The Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center’s (PRC) two herbaria are rich in specimens collected in the states of Oklahoma and Texas. These are being mobilized for inclusion in the NSF-funded project to digitize similar holdings from a large set of herbaria under the auspices of the Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH). In addition to specimens accessioned at the LL and TEX herbaria, the PRC is helping about a dozen smaller herbaria in Texas to mobilize their collections, some of which are being transported to UT and digitized in our facility. Digitization consists mainly of transcription of label data into our institutional Specify database system and creation of high-resolution images (JPG and DNG formats) that are linked to the text records in the database. Under the terms of the grant, data and image links from all herbaria are also being shared with various aggregators (a TORCH node at SEINet, as well as iDigBio and GBIF), and also are being uploaded to our institutional Lundell Portal (which uses Symbiota as its platform). Each of these connections with other websites on different software platforms requires a separate endpoint within an IPT server established for this purpose. The project eventually will extend beyond the end of the four-year grant and is intended to be maintained more or less permanently for the foreseeable future.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 417,087 records.

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To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

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Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Lauren Hoff
  • Originator
Assistant Curator
Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center
Tomislav Urban
  • Metadata Provider
  • User
Senior Software Developer
Texas Advanced Computing Center
US
George Yatskievych
  • Point Of Contact
Curator
Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center

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