Description
The James C. Parks Herbarium at Millersville University (MVSC) holds about 20000 specimens primarily from Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Here is presented, in digitized form, the full herbarium holdings as of 2020, entirely geo-referenced and photographed. The herbarium collection spans from the mid 1800s to the present day and primarily contains vascular plants. The collection includes many rare fern hybrids and forms collected by James C. Parks and Mary Emma Groff. The herbarium also holds the Mary Emma Groff and Mary E. Grebinger collection, notable for their contributions to Lancaster County Botany and the excellent quality of the specimens.
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 20,429 records.
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.
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 Millersville University James C. Parks Herbarium. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f1c0241b-6c64-414e-914f-ebaf764b3d9b. Millersville University James C. Parks Herbarium publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
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Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Custodian Steward
Geographic Coverage
Specimens mainly from the Continental United States. The majority of the specimens come from within Pennsylvania, but we have representation from most states as well as some from Alaska and other countries such as Aruba and Germany.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [9.15, -160.7], North East [66.33, 122.41] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1833-01-01 / 2020-06-18 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Digitization of the MVSC Herbarium |
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| Funding | Funded by Millersville University Biology Department |
| Study Area Description | Herbarium data |
| Design Description | Herbarium data; from various sources and without any consistent collection protocol |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Processor
Sampling Methods
Herbarium data; from various sources and without any consistent collection protocol
| Study Extent | Herbarium data; from various sources and without any consistent collection protocol |
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| Quality Control | Most specimens from the North East region of the United states were reviewed by Kevin Faccenda for taxonomic accuracy. |
Method step description:
- Data were digitized from herbarium labels. Georeferencing was mainly manual by searching google maps and other gazetteers as well as via an automatic geolocation service for some specimens.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | MVSC; The James C. Parks Herbarium at Millersville University |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed |
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Additional Metadata
| Purpose | Digitized herbarium data for any natural history purposes |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.15468/qdatdf |
| f1c0241b-6c64-414e-914f-ebaf764b3d9b | |
| https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=mvsc-millersville-university |