Description
The BIO Herbarium at the University of Guelph houses approximately 100,000 (image data for 65,535) herbarium specimens, collected from all around the world. The collection provides excellent coverage in ethnobotanical notes and houses vouchers for the Flora Ontario Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS). The collection also contains DNA Barcoding vouchers for the Center for Biodiversity Intitute of Ontario (CBG) of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario. BIO Herbarium is committed to making this important collection more accessible to botanists and others, wherever they may be, for use in their own projects: particularly in biodiversity, conservation, sustainable development and systematics. To this end we have developed HIMS, which contains labelled information and images of all the specimens at the BIO Herbarium.
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 65,535 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:
OAC-Herbarium, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario from University of Guelph. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/66f3rsta (accessed on [date])
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Guelph. 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: 68829f71-56b1-4015-a363-ef8f0e1d6e4f. University of Guelph publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; OAC; OAC-BIO herbarium; University of Guelph Arboretum; Barcode of Life Collections; Ontario; Collections; Herbarium; Specimens; Medicinal Plant Collections; Weeds of Ontario; Cnanadensys; Occurrence; Crops collection
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Canadensys explorer | http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/en/resources/oac-specimens UTF-8 HTML |
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| GBIF data portal | http://www.gbif.org/dataset/68829f71-56b1-4015-a363-ef8f0e1d6e4f UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Curator ●
- Originator
- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
The Ontario Agricultural College was instrumental in establishing the OAC Herbarium and hence the collection reflects this history with an impressive collection of weeds (Pre -1800). Most of these collections are vouchers from current research projects including the Flora Ontario project. However, there are smaller collections within the herbarium that arm from research initiatives across the globe.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [42.19, -166.09], North East [82.83, -63.12] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This dataset includes Plantae- vascular and non-vascular plant specimens from the OAC-BIO Herbarium, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph teaching collection that have been digitized, databased (partially). Major groups are: Lichens, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms.
| Kingdom | Plantae |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | OAC-BIO Herbarium Information Management System (HIMS) |
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| Funding | Canada Foundation for Innovation |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Curator
Sampling Methods
Floristic diversity; Weeds of Ontario collection; DNA barcoding collections- collection, identification, preparation of typical herbarium vouchers, accessing in to OAC-BIO herbarium by the respective project investigator.
| Study Extent | The Herbarium collection has increased from 85000-128000 specimens in the last three years. Most of these collections are vouchers from current research projects including the Flora Ontario project. Dr Newmaster arranged for the donation of several specialized collections from the Canadian National Museum, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Botanical Gardens, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, Canadian Forest Service, Botanical Research Institute of Texas and the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Starting in 2006, the OAC Herbarium will become the repository of all plant vouchers for the Canadian Barcode of Life Consortium, which just received funding from Genome Canada ($630,798 for plants) to barcode plants in Canada. This will include the archival of herbarium vouchers, preserved leaves in silica gel and the extraction of each specimens DNA for cryopreservation. |
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| Quality Control | Records are edited on an ad hoc basis. |
Method step description:
- Data are entered into the Herbarium Information System (HIMS) and some records determined by taxonomic experts.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | OAC-BIO Herbarium |
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| Collection Identifier | Respective donor or project investigator |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Respective donor or project investigator |
| Specimen preservation methods | Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 68829f71-56b1-4015-a363-ef8f0e1d6e4f |
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| http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=oac-specimens |