rbins:dataset::be_rbins_darwin utf8 Dataset Thomas Vandenberghe Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences Vautierstraat 29 Brussels 1000 BE tvandenberghe@naturalsciences.be Author 2021-03-11 Geographic Information — Metadata Part 1: Fundamentals ISO 19115-1:2014(E) SeaDataNet geographic co-ordinate reference frames L10 3 L10 RBINS DaRWIN 2021-03-11 revision v1.9 Global Biodiversity Information Facility dataset identifier 8138eb72-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences IPT dataset identifier be_rbins_darwin Olivier Pauwels Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences - Department of Vautierstraat 29 Brussels 1000 BE Author Yves Samyn Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences - Department of Vautierstraat 29 Brussels 1000 BE Author The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences houses a precious collection of zoological, anthropological, paleontological, mineralogical and geological materials and data. The renowned Iguanodons from Bernissart, ambassadors of the Belgian science institute in Brussels, represent a natural history collection currently estimated to hold over 37 million specimens. The roots of the present day collection reach far back in history. It evolved from the Natural History collection of Karel of Lotharingen, governor of The Netherlands (1712-1780) and was part of didactic materials owned by the Central School of the City of Brussels. After the independence of Belgium, the City of Brussels donated the collection to the Belgian Government and became part of the autonomous Royal Natural History Museum in 1846, known as the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences since 1948. Fieldwork by researchers and collaborators, in Belgium and abroad, donations and purchases have been expanding the assets ever since. The data presented in this dataset are coming from the DaRWIN database, the collection management tool of the RBINS. Today, DaRWIN manages information on about 550.000 specimens stored in the institute's repositories. This number rises on a daily basis thanks to the continued efforts of curators and their adjuncts that are responsible for maintaining the stored specimens and information. The dataset is made available on GBIF and covers the complete collection, as well as subcollections within Vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish), Invertebrates (acarines, arachnids, Belgian marine invertebrates, brachiopods, bryozoans, marine chelicerates, cnidarians, crustaceans, echinoderms, molluscs and rotifers) and Entomology (beetles, dipterans, heterocerans, hymenopterans, orthopterans and rhopalocerans). Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences Vautierstraat 29 Brussels 1000 BE info@bedic.be PointOfContact natural history collection RBINS DaRWIN Biodiversity Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License. utf8 biota -180 180 -90 90 1814-09-01 2019-01-09 Global Biodiversity Information Facility info@gbif.org Distributor Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) Comma-separated values (CSV) file http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?datasetKey=8138eb72-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a http The csv file and the Darwin Core Archive as found on the GBIF portal. download Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences bedic@naturalsciences.be Distributor Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) http://ipt.naturalsciences.be/ipt/archive.do?r=be_rbins_darwin http The Darwin Core Archive as found on the IPT of the data publisher. download dataset The dataset has been data managed in order to be stored as Darwin Core archive: taxa were matched and columns were mapped with DarwinCore headers.