Abstract: The NWT Virtual Herbarium was initiated to store information, in a digital form, on plants collected or photographed in the NWT. From 2007 to 2008, almost all the plant specimens available at the Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada herbarium in Ottawa were photographed and the information on each label was entered into a database. The procedures, standards, fields, and update protocols are described. The NWT Virtual Herbarium can be updated and extended to include any other set of photographs and label information of all vascular plant specimens ever collected and stored in a recognized institution with botanical expertise and other available photographs, location information and associated data of vascular plants from the NWT.
Purpose: The aim of the Northwest Territories Virtual Herbarium is to store, in digital form, photographs and label information of all vascular plant specimens ever collected and stored in a recognized institution with botanical expertise and other available photographs, location information and associated data of vascular plants from the NWT.
Supplemental_Information: Carriere et al. 2008.
The NWT Virtual Herbarium. Protocols and Metadata. Manuscript Report ____. ENR. GNWT. Yellowknife. NT
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NWT Virtual Herbarium
Additional Info
- Project: NWT Virtual Herbarium
- Dataset Title: NWT Virtual Herbarium
- Data Series: NWT Virtual Herbarium
- Orginator: Environment and Natural Resources Department, GNWT
- Institution Type: gov't - territorial/provincial
- Author: ENR, GNWT
- Distributor: Environment and Natural Resources Department, GNWT
- Reports: Carriere, S., et al. 2008. The Northwest Territories Virtual Herbaium Protocols and Metadata. Environment and Natural Resources Department, GNWT. Manuscript Report No. 184. Yellowknife.
- Data Type: GIS
- Délı̨nę District: yes
- K’asho Got’ı̨nę District: yes
- Tulı́t’a District: yes
- Time Period: 1850-ongoing
- Source Date: 2008
- Version: unknown
- Access Constraints: unknown
- Use Constraints: none
- Completion Status: ongoing
- Maintenance: ongoing
- Maintenance Frequency: Continually
- Metadata Available: yes
- Metadata Contact: Ecosystem Management Biologist 867-920-6327 Facsimile:867-873-0293 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Spatial Extent: NWT
- Traditional Knowledge: no
- Wildlife: no
- Habitat: yes
- Keywords: Vasular Plants, herbarium, Canada, Northwest Territories, Specimens, Photographs, Collector Museum, Habitat, Field Notes
- Data Category: vector
- Format: text
- Feature Type: point
- Feature Count: 26956
- Dataset Descriptive Name: NWT Virtual Herbarium
- File Name: NWT DOA PLANTS Corrected June 2008
- Scale: unknown
- Projection: unknown
Phone: 867-374-4040
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