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Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Specimen Records: 1,692,373
Media Records: 1,430,277
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-01-31

This dataset contains all digitized specimen records stewarded by the Harvard University Herbaria. The Harvard University Herbaria, with over 5 million specimens, is the world’s largest University Herbaria. Included in the Herbaria are what were once six separate herbarium collections: * Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum (A) * Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames (ECON) * Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium (AMES) * Farlow Herbarium (FH) * Gray Herbarium (GH) * New England Botanical Club Herbarium (NEBC). DarwinCore data follows the AppleCore guidance https://code.google.com/p/applecore/.

Contacts

Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Michaela Schmull
RoleDirector of Collections
Emailmschmull@oeb.harvard.edu
Name Charles Davis
RoleCurator of Vascular Plant Collection; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Emailcdavis@oeb.harvard.edu
Name Donald Pfister
RoleCurator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany; Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany
Emaildpfister@oeb.harvard.edu
Name Elena Kramer
RoleInterim Director; Bussey Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Emailekramer@oeb.harvard.edu
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i1647876
97.371
dwc_datasetid_added  i1450670
85.718
dwc_kingdom_added  i1450670
85.718
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1450670
85.718
dwc_taxonid_added  i1450670
85.718
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1450670
85.718
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1450670
85.718
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1450670
85.718
gbif_genericname_added  i1450670
85.718
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1450670
85.718
dwc_phylum_added  i1450525
85.71
dwc_class_added  i1450169
85.688
dwc_order_added  i1448747
85.604
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i1348275
79.668
gbif_reference_added  i1185402
70.044
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1174547
69.402
dwc_country_replaced  i1117296
66.019
dwc_multimedia_added  i985477
58.23
taxon_match_failed  i478781
28.291
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i345725
20.428
dwc_family_replaced  i157265
9.293
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i150021
8.865
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i122240
7.223
dwc_genus_replaced  i59399
3.51
geopoint_datum_error  i38205
2.257
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i32905
1.944
dwc_family_added  i25455
1.504
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i25103
1.483
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i11929
0.705
dwc_continent_replaced  i5917
0.35
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i5229
0.309
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2672
0.158
dwc_country_added  i2294
0.136
rev_geocode_eez  i1156
0.068
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i974
0.058
rev_geocode_mismatch  i937
0.055
rev_geocode_corrected  i411
0.024
dwc_genus_added  i401
0.024
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i323
0.019
rev_geocode_failure  i150
0.009
dwc_specificepithet_added  i66
0.004
geopoint_0_coord  i58
0.003
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i58
0.003
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i53
0.003
geopoint_similar_coord  i50
0.003
rev_geocode_flip  i13
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
0.001
datecollected_bounds  i8
0
rev_geocode_both_sign  i5
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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