Description
The R.J. Staniforth herbarium is located in room 2RC086 of the Richardson Science Complex, and contains ca. 7000 vascular plants specimens, mostly from Manitoba. The herbarium started as a small teaching collection with most specimens collected by professor Staniforth. Specimens collected by students of Flora of Manitoba and other courses with a field component have been added since. Currently, the collection is being digitized and all label information is being entered into a database using Merlin, with guidance from professor René Belland (U. Calgary) and much help from work-study students and volunteers.
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 1,485 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Otfinowski R (2024). Richard Staniforth Herbarium (UWPG). Version 2.2. University of Winnipeg. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/ptli1e
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Winnipeg. 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.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7efaf3c5-bd1a-42b9-852e-fd39fbc6c5b8. University of Winnipeg publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canadensys.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; UWPG; Richard J. Staniforth Herbarium; Winnipeg; Manitoba; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- User
Geographic Coverage
Primarily the Flora of Manitoba
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [37.71, -134.64], North East [67.6, -53.43] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This dataset includes all vascular plant specimens entered so far from the Richard J. Staniforth Herbarium that have been digitized, databased and geo-referenced. The top 3 families are to be determined upon completion.
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 20th century-present |
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Project Data
At this point, specimen collection has slowed down in order to allow for all specimens to be databased so that informed decisions can be made regarding what plants to collect and from which locations.
| Title | Richard J. Staniforth Herbarium Collection Digitization and Databasing |
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| Funding | The University of Winnipeg |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Curator
Sampling Methods
All data are manually digitized as text from the original labels of the specimens, which are later photographed at high resolution.
| Study Extent | Digitization of vascular plants from the Richard J. Staniforth Herbarium, which are specimens collected mostly from Manitoba. |
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| Quality Control | Records are corrected on an ad hoc basis. |
Method step description:
- Data are entered into the main database through Merlin software, with all taxonomic nomenclature verified according to Vascan.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Richard J. Staniforth HERBARIUM |
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| Collection Identifier | UWPG |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UWPG |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed, Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | doi:10.5886/ptli1e |
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| 7efaf3c5-bd1a-42b9-852e-fd39fbc6c5b8 | |
| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=uwpg-specimens |