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Harvard University Herbaria: All Records

Specimen Records: 1,907,773
Media Records: 1,664,653
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-04-18

This dataset contains all digitized specimen records stewarded by the Harvard University Herbaria. The Harvard University Herbaria, with over 5 million specimens, is the world’s largest University Herbaria. Included in the Herbaria are what were once six separate herbarium collections: * Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum (A) * Economic Herbarium of Oakes Ames (ECON) * Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium (AMES) * Farlow Herbarium (FH) * Gray Herbarium (GH) * New England Botanical Club Herbarium (NEBC). DarwinCore data follows the AppleCore guidance https://code.google.com/p/applecore/.

Contacts

Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
Name Michaela Schmull
RoleDirector of Collections
Emailmschmull@oeb.harvard.edu
Name Charles Davis
RoleCurator of Vascular Plant Collection; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Emailcdavis@oeb.harvard.edu
Name Jeannine Cavender-Bares
RoleDirector of the Harvard University Herbaria; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Emailnone
Name Jonathan Kennedy
RoleDirector of Biodiversity Informatics
Emailjonathan_kennedy@harvard.edu
  • 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  i1855061
97.237
dwc_datasetid_added  i1617517
84.786
dwc_kingdom_added  i1617517
84.786
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i1617517
84.786
dwc_taxonid_added  i1617517
84.786
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i1617517
84.786
dwc_taxonrank_added  i1617517
84.786
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1617517
84.786
gbif_genericname_added  i1617517
84.786
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1617517
84.786
dwc_phylum_added  i1617352
84.777
dwc_class_added  i1616970
84.757
dwc_order_added  i1615464
84.678
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i1484058
77.79
gbif_reference_added  i1323199
69.358
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1253549
65.707
dwc_country_replaced  i1134444
59.464
dwc_multimedia_added  i1060523
55.59
taxon_match_failed  i540742
28.344
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i383784
20.117
dwc_family_replaced  i180067
9.439
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i171098
8.968
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i133698
7.008
dwc_genus_replaced  i64241
3.367
geopoint_datum_error  i40212
2.108
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i36535
1.915
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i34883
1.828
dwc_family_added  i25679
1.346
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i17176
0.9
dwc_continent_replaced  i6468
0.339
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i5128
0.269
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2773
0.145
dwc_country_added  i2377
0.125
rev_geocode_eez  i1235
0.065
dwc_genus_added  i1099
0.058
dwc_acceptednameusageid_added  i1015
0.053
rev_geocode_mismatch  i897
0.047
rev_geocode_corrected  i403
0.021
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i313
0.016
rev_geocode_failure  i102
0.005
dwc_specificepithet_added  i58
0.003
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i58
0.003
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i52
0.003
rev_geocode_flip  i15
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i10
0.001
datecollected_bounds  i7
0
rev_geocode_both_sign  i5
0
geopoint_similar_coord  i4
0
geopoint_0_coord  i3
0
rev_geocode_flip_lat_sign  i2
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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