Herpetology Collection NRM

Occurrence
Latest version published by Swedish Museum of Natural History on Jul 1, 2024 Swedish Museum of Natural History

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Description

This database contains information on the so far registered specimens in the Herpetology Collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The database is managed with The Artedian collection management system in MS-Access. The main tables describe collecting events and collection objects which are related on a one to many relationships. The database is Darwin Core compatible but uses alternative table names and includes also loan routines, document management and other components of collection management. Principal items managed are objects (catalog number, identification, number of specimens, sex size, location in collection, collection space, preservative, identifier, etc.); localities (collecting events with date, collector, geographic information including co-ordinates, and more), collecting site habitat; loans (with extensive metadata), accession information (date of accession, donors, acquisition conditions etc., specimen preservation progress). DNA samples are managed as subsamples of objects. Specimen and collecting site images are managed with extensive metadata. The database has a web presentation at http://artedi.nrm.se/nrmfish.

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 4,956 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

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Swedish Museum of Natural History. 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: 64be02e0-0c64-11dd-84d1-b8a03c50a862.  Swedish Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Sven Kullander
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • User
  • Senior Curator
Swedish Museum of Natural History
SE
Michael Norén
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm
SE

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 64be02e0-0c64-11dd-84d1-b8a03c50a862
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=nrm-herpetology