DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17713393
title: Flora-Batava-people-plants-location

description: Dataset listing all species described in the first illustrated Flora of the Netherlands, the Flora Batava series published between 1800 and 1934.

List of variables and their description:



record.ID: individual identification of each record, assigned in a way to preserve the orther in which the species were published in the original material.

volume: volume of the Flora Batava series in which the record is mentioned.

 volume.year: year in which the corresponding volume was first published.

editor: editor responsible for the corresponding volume.

publisher: name and city of the publisher of the corresponding volume.

file.link: link to the corresponding page in which the record is mentioned in the original volumes held by the National Library of the Netherlands.

botanical.division: general group in which the corresponding species is classified (Algae, Conifers, Ferns, Flowering plants, Fungi, Mosses, Sponge) [1].

botanical.family: family in which the corresponding species is classified [1].

species.name.raw: species names as described in the original text.

species.name.current: currently accepted name of the species [1].

location.name: name of the location in which the corresponding observation took place.

location.remarks: additional information about the location.

lat.geocoded: latitute in decimal degrees attributed to the corresponding location [2].

lng.geocoded: longitude in decimal degrees attributed to the corresponding location [2].

coordinate.uncertainty: uncertainty (in meters) associated with the corresponding geographical coordinates [2].

date.raw: date as informed in the original text.

day: day in which the observation was carried out.

month: month in which the observation was carried out.

year: year in which the observation was carried out

season: season in which the observation was carried out, as derived from the date.

observer.name: name of the person who observed the species in the corresponding location and date.

observer.sex: sex of the observer ("unknown" used in when no explicit information was located).

FLORON.person.id: individual identification number of each person according to the database managed by FLORON.

additional.observer: additional observers associated with the corresponding record [3].

observer.type: relationship of the observer to the corresponding volume of the Flora Batava series (author, external, group, publication).

habitat: habitat in which the corresponding species is usually found according to the original text.

other.notes: additional information about the corresponding record.  


[1] Botanical nomenclature and classification following Boyle et al. 2021 (https://tnrs.biendata.org/ last accessed 02 December 2024), Robert et al. 2005 (https://www.MycoBank.org/ last accessed 02 December 2024), and Turland et al. 2025 (International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants - Madrid Code). 

[2] Geocoding carried out using the Nominatim tool (OpenStreetMap) and tidygeocoder (R package).

[3] When more than one observer is mentioned for a single event, the first name was considered to be the main observer, while the others were classified as additional observers and listed in the order in which they are mentioned in the original text.