OCCURRENCE

Harvard University Herbaria: HerbariomiX

Latest version published by Harvard University Herbaria on 05 July 2025 Harvard University Herbaria
This dataset contains all specimen records at the Harvard University Herbaria digitized for the HerbariomiX project . 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).
Publication date:
05 July 2025
License:
CC-BY 4.0

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 37,681 records.

3 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    37681
  • Identification 
    38724
  • ResourceRelationship 
    37681
  • Multimedia 
    37619

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Downloads

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 37,681 records in English (8 MB) - Update frequency: weekly
Metadata as an EML file download in English (8 kB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (6 kB)

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Harvard University Herbaria. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has not been registered with GBIF

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Jonathan Kennedy

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Jonathan Kennedy

Who filled in the metadata:

Jonathan Kennedy

Who else was associated with the resource:

Point Of Contact
Jonathan Kennedy
Point Of Contact
Michaela Schmull
Point Of Contact
Charles Davis
Point Of Contact
Jeannine Cavender-Bares

Geographic Coverage

The Harvard University Herbaria collections are global in scope with notably rich collections from Asia and North America.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Additional Metadata