The digitization of plant specimens of NTU

Chang-Fu Hsieh1, Kun-Chi Lai2, Kun-Chi Lai3

1 College of Life Science, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan; 2 Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist., Taipei, Taiwan; 3 

Corresponding author(s): Chang-Fu Hsieh, Kun-Chi Lai (east0122@gate.sinica.edu.tw)

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Abstract

Established in 1929, the Herbarium of the Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the National Taiwan University (NTU) is now over seventy years old, with a collection of over 260,000 specimens. Among its collection, specimens of Taiwan’s indigenous plants are the most numerous, representing at least 95% of species of vascular plants in Taiwan. In order to better utilize and manage the items in the NTU Herbarium (TAI), most of the specimens in the collection and the labels of each specimen have all undergone digitization, and have been incorporated into the Herbarium’s website for the sake of sustainable preservation and for purposes of academic research, as well as both specialized and general education. The digitization work is funded by Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP).

Keywords: Plant, Specimen, Occurrence, TELDAP, Taiwan, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.taibif.tw/resource?r=tai

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Taiwan
Coordinates: 21°45'0''N and 26°18'0''N Latitude; 118°19'12''E and 123°54'36''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1895 - 2012

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive The digitization of plant specimens of NTU
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.taibif.tw/archive.do?r=tai
Publication date of data: 2020-05-23
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-02-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset