Making the zoology collection at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe accessible through GBIF by end of 2017 (BID-AF2015-0117-SMA)

Tsitsi Maponga1, Tsitsi Maponga2, Kith Mkhwananzi2, Melusi Sibanda2, Praxedes Rukuni2, Tsitsi Maponga3, Moira FitzPatrick4

1 Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; 2 Natural History Museum, ; 3 ; 4 Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Corresponding author(s): Tsitsi Maponga (tsimap@gmail.com), Tsitsi Maponga (tsimap@gmail.com), Kith Mkhwananzi, Melusi Sibanda, Praxedes Rukuni

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Maponga T.S, Mkhwananzi K.G, Sibanda M, Rukuni P, (2018): Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe Mammalogy Occurence Dataset. v1.3. Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe. Dataset/Occurrence. http://www.nhmbyo.co.zw/ipt/resource?r=mammalogy_occurence_datasets&amp;v=1.3

Abstract

A checklist of 11000, mammalian specimen records was published on GBIF. The resulting occurrence dataset provides 10965 (not 11000,due to duplication of accession numbers) records of when and where the specimens were collected. However the data may not be complete in some areas as there are no records for some of the variables. Taxonomic, collection methods and other attributes of this data are documented fully on the checklist. Please refer to our checklist publication on GBIF for this data.

Keywords: Occurrence, locality, Specimen, Occurrence

General description

Additional information: On the eventDate column we would like to make our data users aware that the date, 1900/01/00, is a value to show that there was no date provided for the specimen. Therefore this is not the real date but in this case a synonym for absent date.

Project details

Project title: Making the zoology collection at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe accessible through GBIF by end of 2017
Personnel: Tsitsi Maponga, Kith Mkhwananzi, Melusi Sibanda

Data published through GBIF: http://196.27.109.38:8080/resource?r=dataset_2

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Data was collected predominantly from Southern Africa. Localities have been defined up to city or town level. However specific localities are available on request. Maps for different species will also be made available on our Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe website (http://naturalhistorymuseumzimbabwe.com/).
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Formation period: 1907-2005

Methods

Method step description: The checklist dataset provides a detailed description of the specific methods used to extract and publish the dataset. However more information will be uploaded in due course.
Study extent description: Specimens were collected predominatly from Southern Africa. They were mainly collected between the early 1900s and early 2000s.
Sampling description: Similar to our checklist dataset, data was converted from analogue and digitized on excel. This data was then curated using open refine and georeferenced using predominantly geolocate and google maps. Gazetteers and historical maps were also used to verify localities.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Making the zoology collection at the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe accessible through GBIF by end of 2017 (BID-AF2015-0117-SMA)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://196.27.109.38:8080/archive.do?r=dataset_2
Publication date of data: 2023-01-18
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-01-31
Hierarchy level: Dataset