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RBINS DaRWIN

Specimen Records: 636,115
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2022-01-11

The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences houses a precious collection of zoological, anthropological, paleontological, mineralogical and geological materials and data. The renowned Iguanodons from Bernissart, ambassadors of the Belgian science institute in Brussels, represent a natural history collection currently estimated to hold over 37 million specimens. The roots of the present day collection reach far back in history. It evolved from the Natural History collection of Karel of Lotharingen, governor of The Netherlands (1712-1780) and was part of didactic materials owned by the Central School of the City of Brussels. After the independence of Belgium, the City of Brussels donated the collection to the Belgian Government and became part of the autonomous Royal Natural History Museum in 1846, known as the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences since 1948. Fieldwork by researchers and collaborators, in Belgium and abroad, donations and purchases have been expanding the assets ever since. The data presented in this dataset are coming from the DaRWIN database, the collection management tool of the RBINS. Today, DaRWIN manages information on about 550.000 specimens stored in the institute's repositories. This number rises on a daily basis thanks to the continued efforts of curators and their adjuncts that are responsible for maintaining the stored specimens and information. The dataset is made available on GBIF and covers the complete collection, as well as subcollections within Vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish), Invertebrates (acarines, arachnids, Belgian marine invertebrates, brachiopods, bryozoans, marine chelicerates, cnidarians, crustaceans, echinoderms, molluscs and rotifers) and Entomology (beetles, dipterans, heterocerans, hymenopterans, orthopterans and rhopalocerans).

Contacts

Name Olivier Pauwels
Rolecurator
Emailnone
Name Yves Samyn
Rolecurator
Emailnone
Name Thomas Vandenberghe
RoleData manager
Emailtvandenberghe@naturalsciences.be
Name Patrick Semal
RoleHead of Section Scientific Heritage
Emailpsemal@naturalsciences.be
Namenone
Rolenone
Emailinfo@bedic.be
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i352897
55.477
dwc_continent_added  i331898
52.176
geopoint_datum_missing  i208250
32.738
dwc_datasetid_replaced  i105292
16.552
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i105292
16.552
gbif_canonicalname_added  i105292
16.552
gbif_genericname_added  i105292
16.552
gbif_taxon_corrected  i105292
16.552
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i96428
15.159
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i96428
15.159
dwc_taxonomicstatus_replaced  i85172
13.389
gbif_reference_added  i83502
13.127
dwc_class_replaced  i73199
11.507
dwc_taxonid_replaced  i69549
10.933
gbif_vernacularname_added  i68433
10.758
dwc_phylum_replaced  i65269
10.261
dwc_order_replaced  i64405
10.125
dwc_genus_replaced  i63013
9.906
dwc_multimedia_added  i58229
9.154
dwc_family_replaced  i54728
8.603
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i45041
7.081
geopoint_low_precision  i43891
6.9
taxon_match_failed  i42479
6.678
dwc_taxonid_added  i35743
5.619
rev_geocode_eez  i32063
5.04
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i31748
4.991
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i29320
4.609
dwc_family_added  i21086
3.315
dwc_phylum_added  i21039
3.307
dwc_genus_added  i20324
3.195
dwc_order_added  i20197
3.175
dwc_class_added  i20158
3.169
dwc_kingdom_added  i20120
3.163
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i20120
3.163
dwc_specificepithet_added  i17586
2.765
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i17347
2.727
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i8886
1.397
rev_geocode_mismatch  i8056
1.266
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i1449
0.228
rev_geocode_failure  i522
0.082
rev_geocode_corrected  i483
0.076
geopoint_datum_error  i441
0.069
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i327
0.051
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i246
0.039
geopoint_similar_coord  i237
0.037
geopoint_0_coord  i206
0.032
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i171
0.027
dwc_country_replaced  i169
0.027
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i80
0.013
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i72
0.011
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i72
0.011
rev_geocode_flip  i9
0.001
rev_geocode_both_sign  i2
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i1
0
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