Biodiversity Information Science and Standards :
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Corresponding author: Alice Ainsa (alice.ainsa@mnhn.fr)
Received: 04 Sep 2023 | Published: 07 Sep 2023
© 2023 Alice Ainsa, Sophie Pamerlon, Anne-Sophie Archambeau, Rémi Beauvieux, Raoufou Radji, Hervé Chevillotte
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Ainsa A, Pamerlon S, Archambeau A-S, Beauvieux R, Radji R, Chevillotte H (2023) Regional Data Platform of West and Central African Herbaria. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 7: e112180. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112180
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In April 2021, a Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) project was launched to deliver a regional data platform of West and Central African herbaria, which just concluded in April 2023. A dataset containing 168,545 herbarium specimens from 6 different countries: Togo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Benin, Guinea Conakry and Cameroon, is now visible on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) website and will be regularly updated. A checklist datatset (
In addition, a Living Atlases portal for herbaria in West and Central Africa has been created to allow users to search, display, filter, and download these data. This application reuses open source modules developed by the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) community (
In addition to that, the RIHA platform (Réseau Informatique des Herbiers d'Afrique / Digital Network of African Herbaria) enables herbarium administrators to manage their own data. Thanks to all these tools, the workflow (Fig.
African Herbaria platform overview: RIHA (Réseau Informatique des Herbiers d'Afrique / Digital Network of African Herbaria), IPT (Integrated Publishing Toolkit), GBIF (Global Biodiversity Interest Facility), ALA (Atlas of Living Australia). Figure credit: GBIF France as CC-BY.
Atlas of Living Australia modules, open data, biodiversity data
Alice Ainsa
TDWG 2023