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Missing JSTOR Plants collections #365

Open kcopas opened 1 year ago

kcopas commented 1 year ago

JSTOR Plants is the product of a philanthropically funded digitization effort consisting of specimen data and images from a few hundred institutions around the world. It does seem there's a surprising disconnect and lack of overlap between this "world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens" (hardly now, if ever) and GBIF, maybe especially when it comes to images (see rdmpage).

This could be used as another source for coordinating and prioritizing regional outreach and engagement and to fill taxonomic gaps. The first entry on the partners page—the Herbario Do Lubango—is missing, but another example is the world's largest collection of rust fungi, Purdue University's Arthur Fungarium. It may have only 3 per cent of its collection in JSTOR, but it is completely absent from GBIF. While the proportion of imaging may still be low, there's much more data for this collection (organized in Darwin Core, if I understood it correctly) than is represented in either place.

The situation at these collections will not be significantly different from elsewhere (understaffed, under-resourced, etc.), but they at least will have some experience with data sharing and may be ready to take further steps beyond the walled garden of JSTOR Plants. Mobilizing missing collections would also add to the available data in GRSciColl.

Dataset link: JSTOR Plants Home

Region: Global

Taxon: mostly Plantae

Type: Specimens / Material samples

Why is this important: Digitized (at least partially) collections that have previously been made available a combination of open and closed licences

Priority: Opportunistic

Comments: Many more data-from labels could be added—I've just used the available ones in a quick scan of the partners page.

Dataholders contact information: listed by collection, accessible through partners page

spalp commented 3 months ago

partners page is also a nice source to review missing institutions from GRSciColl.

CecSve commented 3 months ago

@kcopas - fyi we have a global tag you can use instead of adding separate countries.