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Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Specimen Records: 1,631,069
Media Records: 1,372,219
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-25

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  i1588208
97.372
dwc_datasetid_added  i1401325
85.915
dwc_kingdom_added  i1401325
85.915
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1401325
85.915
dwc_taxonid_added  i1401325
85.915
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1401325
85.915
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1401325
85.915
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1401325
85.915
gbif_genericname_added  i1401325
85.915
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1401325
85.915
dwc_phylum_added  i1401182
85.906
dwc_class_added  i1400859
85.886
dwc_order_added  i1399470
85.801
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i1305544
80.042
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1150538
70.539
gbif_reference_added  i1143269
70.093
dwc_country_replaced  i1111261
68.131
dwc_multimedia_added  i963572
59.076
taxon_match_failed  i464534
28.48
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i331258
20.309
dwc_family_replaced  i147705
9.056
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i143940
8.825
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i119368
7.318
dwc_genus_replaced  i56124
3.441
geopoint_datum_error  i38186
2.341
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i31936
1.958
dwc_family_added  i25403
1.557
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i22234
1.363
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i11037
0.677
dwc_continent_replaced  i5872
0.36
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i5228
0.321
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2656
0.163
dwc_country_added  i2266
0.139
rev_geocode_eez  i1142
0.07
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i971
0.06
rev_geocode_mismatch  i912
0.056
rev_geocode_corrected  i396
0.024
dwc_genus_added  i356
0.022
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i312
0.019
rev_geocode_failure  i133
0.008
dwc_specificepithet_added  i66
0.004
geopoint_0_coord  i59
0.004
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i54
0.003
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i53
0.003
geopoint_similar_coord  i51
0.003
datecollected_bounds  i26
0.002
rev_geocode_flip  i13
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
0.001
rev_geocode_both_sign  i5
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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