Description
The Ouellet-Robert entomological collection (QMOR) is one of the larger Canadian university entomological collections and the second largest in Quebec. It comprises 1.5 million specimens, covering more than 20,000 species. Aquatic insects from many regions of the world are particularly well-represented. This dataset includes 38,295 digitized lots from the collection (192,000+ individuals), representing the orders Odonata, Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera.
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 50,944 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:
Ouellet-Robert entomological collection (QMOR) from University of Montreal Biodiversity Centre. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/qwvt63fz (accessed on [date]).
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre. 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: ada5d0b1-07de-4dc0-83d4-e312f0fb81cb. Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
QMOR; Ouellet-Robert entomological collection; Collection entomologique Ouellet-Robert; Université de Montréal; Canadensys; Canada; Quebec; collection; specimens; entomology; Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Canadensys explorer | http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/d/qmor-specimens UTF-8 HTML |
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| GBIF data portal | http://www.gbif.org/dataset/ada5d0b1-07de-4dc0-83d4-e312f0fb81cb UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Custodian Steward ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6243-3184
- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
Global terrestrial coverage (except Antartica). Over 90% of the specimens in this dataset are collected in Canada, of which 95% in the province Quebec.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This dataset includes all Odonata (25,500+) and Trichoptera (7,100+) specimens in the collection. Digitization has started for Ephemeroptera (5,500+ specimens so far), but most orders in the collection have not yet been digitized.
| Kingdom | Animalia (Animals) |
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| Class | Insecta (Insects) |
| Order | Odonata (Dragonflies), Trichoptera (Caddisflies), Ephemeroptera (Mayflies) |
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1930-present |
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Sampling Methods
All data are manually digitized as text from specimen labels. No images were taken.
| Study Extent | Digitization of the Odonata, Trichoptera and Ephemeroptera from the Ouellet-Robert entomological collection (QMOR). |
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| Quality Control | No legacy data were present, so all data were entered using controlled vocabularies where relevant. All fields have been checked for inconsistencies. |
Method step description:
- Examine specimen and any attached/included labels.
- Create new record in collection database and populate fields with the information on the specimen label. Use controlled vocabularies where relevant. Determinations are recorded in a related table (included in this dataset as http://rs.gbif.org/extension/dwc/identification.xml), as are groups of individuals (e.g. 2 males, 1 female).
- Attach the newly generated specimen number to the physical specimen.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Ouellet-Robert Entomological Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | QMOR |
| Parent Collection Identifier | QMOR |
| Specimen preservation methods | Other |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | Collection entomologique Ouellet-Robert (QMOR) |
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| ada5d0b1-07de-4dc0-83d4-e312f0fb81cb | |
| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=qmor-specimens |