SANBI Metadata
TreeMAP: Virtual Tree Herbarium
This data-set comprises validated species occurrence records of trees of the African continent. It is a collection of data from citizen science contributions, personal notes and other unpublished sources. Records range from 1960 to present.
TreeMAP is a Virtual Museum and citizen science project which aims to determine the distribution and conservation priorities of trees and shrubs in southern Africa. TreeMAP is helping to build the 21st century distribution maps for southern African's trees.
Identification of citizen science records, based on the photos uploaded, is done by a panel of experts in the relevant taxa. The taxonomy is kept up-to-date by the project coordinator.
All data, excepting records for sensitive taxa, are available to the public. Records are provided at the recorded precision, usually point coordinates. The coverage is moderate for South Africa, but very sparse for the rest of Africa.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-08-28
- Edition
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1.0
- Citation identifier
- http://metadata.sanbi.org/geonetwork/srv/metadata/a21acdfe-b0d2-4b63-931f-01cd0be4b1c2
- Purpose
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The information consolidated within the project will build up a comprehensive identification guide, as well as mapping the ranges of each species.
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords
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- Theme
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Southern African tree picture archive
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Distribution maps
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Terrestrial
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Plantae
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- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2010-12-01
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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A list of services published are available at this URL.
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Virtual Museum System
- OnLine resource
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VMUS_to_DwC_20181005.xlsx
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Virtual Museum field description and Darwin Core mapping
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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TreeMAP was established on 2010-12-01 as a Virtual Museum project by an initiative lead by Dr Oliver Maurin and Prof. Michelle van der Bank from the Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg. However, by the end of 2011 they withdrew from the project.
TreeMAP has had many submissions by the public but it has not attracted the attention of tree specialists and a substantial number of records remain unidentified.
TreeMAP data sources and number of records in brackets: (as of 2018-10-31):
ADU-UCT (Virtual Museum) (20,974);
Private (Craig Peter) (7,271);
Private (Walter Jubber) (20).
All records are shareable.
- File identifier
- a21acdfe-b0d2-4b63-931f-01cd0be4b1c2 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2019-07-19T12:32:03
- Metadata standard name
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SANS 1878
- Metadata standard version
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FGDC-STD-001-1998
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