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
(live collections) To manage existing Occurrence (= Specimen) Records live inside the portal, first log into CNALH with your user account. Then go to My Profile and select the Specimen Management tab. From this tab choose “your collection name” [the example below features screenshots from the University of Oklahoma Lichen Herbarium (CSU:Lichens)]. From the Data … Manage Occurrence Data
It is strongly recommended to first make a backup !!! Go to My Profile – Specimen Management – Collection Management – click “Your Collection Name” In the Administration Control Panel choose Import/Update Specimen Records: A choice of several options appears. If this is a one-time batch upload from a CSV, choose Full-Text File Import: However, … Batch-Uploading Occurrence Data Into Collections
(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
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