MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium
Latest version published by Milwaukee Public Museum on Nov 10, 2023
The Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium houses around 200,000 specimens comprising vascular plants, nonvascular plants, fungi and lichens. Over 50% of the holdings are from the Upper Great Lakes region, 30% from the rest of North America and the remainder features a good representation of taxa worldwide. Notable collectors include: John T. Curtis, Albert M. Fuller, Herman Hayward, Emil P. Kruschke, Charles E. Monroe, Huron H. Smith, W. Carl Taylor. Significant collections include: Ethnobotanical plants of the Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Meskwaki, Ojibwe, Oneida, and Potawatomi Tribes of the Great Lakes region; Isoetes of the world; Aster and Viola of eastern North America; Carroll University Herbarium.
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 123,970 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.
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 123,970 records in English (11 MB) - Update frequency: irregular |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (7 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.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Tyrrell C (2023): MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium. v1.3. Milwaukee Public Museum. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=mil&v=1.3
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Milwaukee Public Museum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9168f50d-350e-4af1-ba97-17274f1faeaf. Milwaukee Public Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Global
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Plants, fungi and lichens
| Kingdom | Plantae (Green plants), Fungi (Fungi and lichens) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1826-01-01 / 2023-10-31 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 9168f50d-350e-4af1-ba97-17274f1faeaf |
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| https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=mil |