Chang Chin-Sung, Kwon Shin Young, Kim Hui
Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Seoul National University Seoul Republic of Korea.
Mokpo National University, Muan, Republic of Korea Mokpo National University Muan Republic of Korea.
Biodivers Data J. 2021 Jun 10;9:e66470. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e66470. eCollection 2021.
The digitisation of historical collections aims to increase global access to scientific artifacts, especially those from currently inaccessible areas. Historical collections from North Korea deposited at foreign herbaria play a fundamental role in biodiversity transformation patterns. However, the biodiversity pattern distribution in this region remains poorly understood given the severe gaps in available geographic species distribution records. Access to a dominant proportion of primary biodiversity data remains difficult for the broader scientific and environmental community. The digitisation of foreign collectors' botanical collections of around 60,000 specimens from the Korean Peninsula before World War II is ongoing. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by developing the first comprehensive, open-access database of biodiversity records for the Korean Peninsula. This paper provides a quantitative and general description of the specimens that Urbain Jean Faurie, Emile Joseph Taquet and Ernest Henry Wilson have collected and are kept in several herbaria.
An open-access database of biodiversity records provides a simple guide to georeferencing historical collections. The first set describes E. H. Wilson's collection of woody plants collected in the Korean Peninsula and preserved at the Harvard University Herbaria (A). This set includes 1,087 records collected from 1917 to 1918. The other collections contain specimens collected by E. J. Taquet (4,727 specimens from Quelpaert (Jeju), 1907-1914) and U. J. Faurie (3,659 specimens from North Korea and Quelpaert, 1901, 1906 and 1907). For each specimen, we recorded the species name, locality indication, collection date, collector, ecology and revision label. This set contains more than 9,400 specimens, with 22% of vascular plants from North Korea and 66% from Quelpaert (Jeju) Island. In these collections, we included some images that correspond to the specimens in this dataset.
历史馆藏数字化旨在让全球更多人能够接触到科学文物，尤其是那些来自目前难以获取地区的文物。存放在国外植物标本馆的朝鲜历史馆藏在生物多样性变化模式中发挥着重要作用。然而，鉴于可用地理物种分布记录存在严重空白，该地区的生物多样性模式分布仍知之甚少。广大科学和环境界仍难以获取大部分主要生物多样性数据。目前正在对二战前外国采集者在朝鲜半岛采集的约6万份植物标本进行数字化处理。在本文中，我们旨在通过开发首个全面的、开放获取的朝鲜半岛生物多样性记录数据库来填补这一空白。本文对乌尔班·让·福里、埃米尔·约瑟夫·塔克和欧内斯特·亨利·威尔逊采集并保存在多个植物标本馆的标本进行了定量和总体描述。
一个开放获取的生物多样性记录数据库为历史馆藏的地理定位提供了简单指南。第一组描述了欧内斯特·亨利·威尔逊在朝鲜半岛采集并保存在哈佛大学植物标本馆（A）的木本植物收藏。这一组包括1917年至1918年采集的1087条记录。其他收藏包含埃米尔·约瑟夫·塔克（1907年至1914年在济州岛采集的4727份标本）和乌尔班·让·福里（1901年、1906年和1907年在朝鲜和济州岛采集的3659份标本）采集的标本。对于每份标本，我们记录了物种名称
