Florabank1 - A grid-based database on vascular plant distribution in the northern part of Belgium (Flanders and the Brussels Capital region)
Florabank1 is a database that contains distributional data on the wild flora (indigenous species, archeophytes and naturalised
aliens) of Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region. It holds about 3 million records of vascular plants, dating from 1800
till present. Furthermore, it includes ecological data on vascular plant species, redlist category information, Ellenberg
values, legal status, global distribution, seed bank etc. The database is an initiative of "Flo.Wer" (http://www.plantenwerkgroep.be),
the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) (http://www.inbo.be) and the National Botanic Garden of Belgium (http://www.br.fgov.be).
Florabank aims at centralizing botanical distribution data gathered by both professional and amateur botanists and to make
these data available to the benefit of nature conservation, policy and scientific research. The occurrence data contained
in Florabank1 are extracted from checklists, literature and herbarium specimen information. Of survey lists, the locality
name (verbatimLocality), species name, observation date and IFBL square code - the grid system used for plant mapping in Belgium
(Van Rompaey 1943) - are recorded. For records dating from the period 1972–2004 all pertinent botanical journals dealing with
Belgian flora were systematically screened. Analysis of herbarium specimens in the collection of the National Botanic Garden
of Belgium, the University of Ghent and the University of Liège provided interesting distribution knowledge concerning rare
species, this information is also included in Florabank1.
The IFBL data recorded before 1972 is available through the Belgian GBIF node (http://www.gbif.org/dataset/940821c0-3269-11df-855a-b8a03c50a862),
not through Florabank1, to avoid duplication of information. A dedicated portal providing access to all currently published
Belgian IFBL records is available at: http://projects.biodiversity.be/ifbl.
All data in Florabank1 is georeferenced. Every record holds the decimal centroid coordinates of the > IFBL square containing
the observation. The uncertainty radius is the smallest circle possible covering the whole IFBL square, which can measure
1 km² or 4 km². Florabank is a work in progress and new occurrences are added as they become available; the dataset will be
updated through GBIF on a regularly base.
Dataset
Basic information
dct:title | Florabank1 - A grid-based database on vascular plant distribution in the northern part of Belgium (Flanders and the Brussels Capital region) | ||||
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dct:description | Florabank1 is a database that contains distributional data on the wild flora (indigenous species, archeophytes and naturalised aliens) of Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region. It holds about 3 million records of vascular plants, dating from 1800 till present. Furthermore, it includes ecological data on vascular plant species, redlist category information, Ellenberg values, legal status, global distribution, seed bank etc. The database is an initiative of "Flo.Wer" ( http://www.plantenwerkgroep.be), the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) ( http://www.inbo.be) and the National Botanic Garden of Belgium ( http://www.br.fgov.be). Florabank aims at centralizing botanical distribution data gathered by both professional and amateur botanists and to make these data available to the benefit of nature conservation, policy and scientific research. The occurrence data contained in Florabank1 are extracted from checklists, literature and herbarium specimen information. Of survey lists, the locality name (verbatimLocality), species name, observation date and IFBL square code - the grid system used for plant mapping in Belgium (Van Rompaey 1943) - are recorded. For records dating from the period 1972–2004 all pertinent botanical journals dealing with Belgian flora were systematically screened. Analysis of herbarium specimens in the collection of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium, the University of Ghent and the University of Liège provided interesting distribution knowledge concerning rare species, this information is also included in Florabank1. The IFBL data recorded before 1972 is available through the Belgian GBIF node ( http://www.gbif.org/dataset/940821c0-3269-11df-855a-b8a03c50a862), not through Florabank1, to avoid duplication of information. A dedicated portal providing access to all currently published Belgian IFBL records is available at: http://projects.biodiversity.be/ifbl. All data in Florabank1 is georeferenced. Every record holds the decimal centroid coordinates of the > IFBL square containing the observation. The uncertainty radius is the smallest circle possible covering the whole IFBL square, which can measure 1 km² or 4 km². Florabank is a work in progress and new occurrences are added as they become available; the dataset will be updated through GBIF on a regularly base. | ||||
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Statuut | Vlaamse Open data (nl) | ||||
dcat:theme | http://eurovoc.europa.eu/5463 | ||||
dct:identifier | https://www.gbif.org/dataset/271c444f-f8d8-4986-b748-e7367755c0c1 |
Version information
dct:modified | 2024-07-01T00:19+02:00 |
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Usage information
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rdf:resource | https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=florabank1-occurrences |
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Extra information
dct:language | http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-1/en |
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Distributies
dct:title | Darwin Core Archive of Florabank1 - A grid-based database on vascular plant distribution in the northern part of Belgium (Flanders and the Brussels Capital region) |
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dct:description | Darwin Core Archive |
rdf:resource | https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=florabank1-occurrences |
Record
Catalog record
dct:identifier | c7fe0a2a-3a0b-3459-b6fa-90a416baed5f |
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dct:modified | 2024-09-07T01:15:01.882Z |
Conformiteit met standaard
dct:title | Dcat-ap-vl |
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dct:description | Dit applicatieprofiel beschrijft Open Data Catalogi in Vlaanderen. DCAT-AP Vlaanderen (DCAT-AP VL) is een verdere specialisatie van DCAT-AP. De applicatie waarop dit profiel betrekking heeft is een Open Data Portaal in Vlaanderen. Open Data portalen zijn catalogussen van Open Data datasets. Ze hebben als belangrijkste doelstelling het vindbaar maken van data en hierdoor het hergebruik ervan te stimuleren. Open Data portalen vervullen een centrale rol in de overheidsopdracht om de toegankelijkheid tot overheidsinformatie te realiseren. Met dit applicatieprofiel bevorderen we de uniformiteit van de beschikbare informatie over datasets. Tevens vereenvoudigen we het aggregatie proces van meerdere Open Data Catalogi. Dit document bevat de verplichte elementen en bijkomende elementen waarover DCAT-AP Vlaanderen een uitspraak doet. Aanbevolen en optionele informatie waarvoor geen bijkomende afspraken in de context van DCAT-AP Vlaanderen zijn, zijn niet opgenomen in dit document. Hiervoor verwijzen we naar de DCAT-AP specificatie zelf. |
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