This specimen record in CCH2, SDSU20756, contains a link to derivative data in GenBank. During the portal campaign, SDSU demonstrated these linkages in its dataset to the portal community. As of September 2024, over 500 specimen records in CCH2 contained links to genetic resources. Photo: San Diego State University, CC-BY-NC.
The CCH2 community showed enthusiastic support for its August 2024 Portal Advancement Campaign. Over the course of the month, Office Hours sessions were attended by 23 unique participants representing herbaria located across California and in neighboring states. Major accomplishments of the CCH2’s campaign included:
- Publishing 9 new datasets to GBIF: BORR, INF, GDRC, KNFY, KNFSC, KNFHC, RSA-Xylarium, RSA-Microscope, and RSA-Bryophytes.
- Indexing 14,000 taxonomic names to the central taxonomic thesaurus, in turn making an additional 50,040 specimen records searchable in the portal
- Standardizing 33,124 basisOfRecord values (=99.9% clean!)
- Adding 8,903 georeferences to the portal
- Resolving 257 reversed elevation value and 113 inverted coordinates
- Updating 12 collections contacts
- Onboarding 1 new collection (SCNHM)