CAS Botany (BOT)

Occurrence
Latest version published by California Academy of Sciences on Apr 15, 2024 California Academy of Sciences

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Description

The electronic catalog of the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

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 710,502 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)
710502
ResourceRelationship 
485659
Multimedia 
152469

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

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

Emily Magnaghi
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Interim Collections Manager, Botany
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Dr.
94118 San Francisco
CA
US
+1 (415) 379-5392
Jon Fong
  • Metadata Provider
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