Occurrence

BODATSA: Botanical Collections

Version 1.4 published by South African National Biodiversity Institute on 10 July 2019 South African National Biodiversity Institute
BODATSA is a database that contains the official plant name data records. The data collected covers observational data, species checklists, specimen information, species description, literature, and collector information from three SANBI herbaria and two botanical garden herbaria for analysis of southern African plants. This is to maintain the most current scientifically accurate assessments of southern African plants.

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 75,000 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.

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 75,000 records in English (6 MB)  - Update frequency: unknown
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.

How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

BODATSA: Botanical Collections. v1.4. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=brahms_online&v=1.4

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is South African National Biodiversity Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: d0963cee-1a29-47a2-b9bf-fb0e7690077c.  South African National Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Information Specialist
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
+27 21 799 8738
http://www.sanbi.org

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Information Specialist
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
+27 21 799 8738
http://www.sanbi.org

Who filled in the metadata:

Fhatani Ranwashe
Data Information Specialist
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X7
7735 Claremont
Western Cape
ZA
+27 21 799 8738
http://www.sanbi.org

Who else was associated with the resource:

User
Fhatani Ranwashe

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers d0963cee-1a29-47a2-b9bf-fb0e7690077c
http://ipt.sanbi.org.za/iptsanbi/resource?r=brahms_online