Biodiversity Information Science and Standards : Conference Abstract
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Corresponding author: David Rowswell (davi144@mail.ubc.ca)
Received: 25 Jun 2019 | Published: 02 Jul 2019
© 2019 David Rowswell, Linda Jennings (Lipsen), Nicolas Bailly
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Citation: Rowswell D, Jennings (Lipsen) L, Bailly N (2019) Beaty Biodiversity Museum Collection and Observation Databases: Towards a single search interface. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37675. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37675
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The Beaty Biodiversity Museum (BBM), at the University of British Columbia, houses over two million biological research specimens, with nearly 40% of the specimen records digitized into databases, unlocking a wealth of information for research and teaching (Table
Current Searchable Record Count per Database
Databases |
Records |
Vascular |
181,735 |
Algae |
75,259 |
Fungi |
32,822 |
Bryophytes |
215,967 |
Lichen |
56,689 |
Avian |
22,117 |
Herpetology |
1,895 |
Mammal |
20,314 |
Entomology |
68,959 |
Fish |
34,815 |
Dry Marine Invertebrate |
7,064 |
Wet Marine Invertebrate |
3,052 |
Fossil |
5,515 |
Home page of the interface where one can navigate to any of the searchable collections. (Still in beta, Stable URL is not available yet but it is currently here: https://herbweb.botany.ubc.ca/testSite/).
This was a large collections project with multiple stages of development. Integration of the data was made possible through the efforts of multiple groups to standardize the fields of each database so they conformed to the Darwin Core standard (
Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia, Darwin Core, unified search interface, collection research, databases, record search
Nicolas Bailly
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