WELT Herbarium at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Lucy Schrader1

1 Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, PO Box 467, 6011, Wellington, New Zealand

Corresponding author(s): Lucy Schrader (lucy.schrader@tepapa.govt.nz), 

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Abstract

This dataset contains data for the herbarium collection at Te Papa (WELT), the national museum of Aotearoa New Zealand. About 250,000 specimen records have been exported from Te Papa's collections API, along with associated event, location, identification, taxon and multimedia data. This export has been done for testing purposes to review our coverage of and conformance to Darwin Core before publishing a full dataset to GBIF.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

General description

Purpose: This dataset is for testing purposes only, and should not be published to GBIF.

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=te_papa_plants_test

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Te Papa's Plants collection includes a wide variety of taxa within the kingdom Plantae.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: This dataset mainly but not exclusively described specimens collected in New Zealand, as well as many from the Pacific and Australia. Many areas around the globe are also represented.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Natural collections description

Collection name: Te Papa Plants Collection
Collection identifier: https://www.gbif.org/grscicoll/collection/6b5044bb-5fff-49ef-89c1-f52ae9e81550
Formation period: 1769 onwards

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive WELT Herbarium at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.org/archive.do?r=te_papa_plants_test
Publication date of data: 2024-02-19
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-03-27
Hierarchy level: Dataset