Frank Bungartz

Taxon Profile Editor

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Managing Taxon Profiles Important:You need editor privileges to edit Taxon Profiles; the number of users able to edit these profiles is limited. If you are interested in contributing, reach out to LichenConsortium@gmail.com _______________________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents _______________________________________________________________________________________ Overview ↑ back to the top Taxon Profiles feature descriptions and images of species, subspecies, varieties, or forms. … Taxon Profile Editor

The Taxonomic Thesaurus

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Managing the Taxonomic Thesaurus (add, edit, update) IMPORTANT: Editing the taxonomy is not trivial. Therefore most users can only browse, but not modify the Taxonomic Thesaurus. If you notice any error or names missing from the thesaurus, reach out to the portal administrator – unless you have the necessary privileges to edit/update the thesaurus yourself. … The Taxonomic Thesaurus

Curating Specimens

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Curating Lichens Here we provide some general recommendations on best practices for curating specimens of lichenized fungi, i.e., processing these specimens to be archived in a collection. Before learning how to curate the material, it might help to understand about collecting lichens. Please review the recommendations how to collect specimens. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents _______________________________________________________________________________________ … Curating Specimens

Collecting Specimens

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Collecting Lichens Here we provide some general recommendations on best practices for collecting specimens of lichenized fungi. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents _______________________________________________________________________________________ Why collect specimens? Generally speaking, there are two main objectives why you may want to collect lichen specimens: (1) For identification: Even though image quality has much improved with the advance of digital … Collecting Specimens

Publishing a Collection to GBIF

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Some Background The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international network and research infrastructure funded by the world’s governments, aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth. GBIF maintains an enormous global database of species and their occurrence records that is globally available to the general … Publishing a Collection to GBIF

Taxonomic Name Cleaner

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(live and snapshot collections) The Taxonomic Name Cleaner makes sure taxon names in a collection are spelled correctly and linked to the correct taxonomy, it also shows, which taxon names may not (yet) be available in CNALH and may have to be added (by a user with Taxon Editor rights). You need Admin Rights for … Taxonomic Name Cleaner

Backup/Download Your Collection

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(live collections) Under normal circumstances it is not necessary to backup occurrence data managed as live collections. All your data is online on our server, where it is regularly backed up. However, even though the entire CNALH online database is regularly backed-up, this doesn’t mean drastic changes to individual collections can easily be undone. Restoring … Backup/Download Your Collection

How to Create a New Collection

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We very much welcome both private researchers and institutions, who want to join the Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria (CNALH) [if you are from Latin America, you might want to visit the Latin American Consorcio de Herbarios de Líquenes de América Latina (CHLAL)]. Personal collections of private researcher not affiliated with a particular institution … How to Create a New Collection