OCCURRENCE

CAS Botany (BOT)

Latest version published by California Academy of Sciences on 29 May 2023 California Academy of Sciences
The electronic catalog of the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
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29 May 2023
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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 686,982 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    686982
  • ResourceRelationship 
    485659
  • Multimedia 
    91220

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.

Downloads

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 686,982 records in English (84 MB) - Update frequency: weekly
Metadata as an EML file download in English (5 kB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (5 kB)

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is California Academy of Sciences. 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: f934f8e2-32ca-46a7-b2f8-b032a4740454.  California Academy of Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Emily Magnaghi
Interim Collections Manager, Botany
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr.
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
+1 (415) 379-5392
https://www.calacademy.org/staff/ibss/botany/emily-magnaghi

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Emily Magnaghi
Interim Collections Manager, Botany
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr.
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
+1 (415) 379-5392
https://www.calacademy.org/staff/ibss/botany/emily-magnaghi

Who filled in the metadata:

Jon Fong
Curatorial Assistant/Programmer
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr.
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
+1 (415) 379-5280

Geographic Coverage

Global coverage

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Additional Metadata

Maintenance Description Update each Monday around 10:00 AM Pacific time.
Alternative Identifiers f934f8e2-32ca-46a7-b2f8-b032a4740454
http://ipt.calacademy.org:8080/resource?r=botany