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Plants of Western Washington Collection

Created: Dec. 28, 1999

Roger del Moral, UW Dept. of Botany, database creator/photographer

Metadata Liaison: Geri Ingram

Project Lead: Laura Lins

System Admin: Jim Gossett

Plants Field Label

Dublin Core

Comments

Title Latin

Title

Most commonly known scientific epithet

Accession Number

Resource Identifier

Written on each 35 mm. slide

Photographer

Creator

Roger del Moral (always)

Publisher

Publisher

UWDOB (always expands via macro to University of Washington Department of Botany

Copyright

Rights

(mailto: Roger del Moral) ?

Plant Status

Description

A small set of controlled vocabulary terms:

Native (to the state)

Weed (introduced accidentally)

Ornamental (escaped)

Naturalized ornamental

Growth form

Description

A small set of controlled vocabulary terms, including:

Tree, shrub, shrub-mat, mat, prostrate, rhizome, fern, rosette, erect, tufted, bulb, annual, biennial, insectivore, floating, vine

Notes

Description

Specifics of the view: a small set of controlled vocabulary terms including:

Aspect, leaves, fruit, flower, cones, seed and stem

Plant Names

Subject

Scientific or common names

Successional Status

Description

Possibly 3 controlled terms, expanded via macro as:

P = pioneer, gets to disturbed sites rapidly

C = climax, found in stable vegetation

S = seral, invades after first species, does not persist

Wetland status

Description

This is a field primarily used to determine whether a site in which a plant is typically found is considered protected by wetland policy. There are 5 controlled terms, expanded via macro as:

UPL = upland, never in wetlands

FACU = facultative upland, seldom in wetlands

FAC = facultative, indifferent, presence does not indicate presence or absence of wetland

FACW = facultative wetland, usually in wetland

OBL = obligate, always in a wetland

Climate indicator

Description

6 categories describe the climate:

Alpine, subalpine, upper montane,lower montane,

Lowlands, dry interior

Moisture indicator

Description

Again, a few terms will be allowed, including: xeric (very dry), dry, moderate, moist, wet, hydric (very wet).

Nutrient indicator

Description

6 terms describe the nutrient status of the soil: Poor, moderate and rich (“Klinka indicators); and low, medium and high (as determined by Professor del Moral

Typical habitat

Description

Describes the ecological community in which the species is typically found (not geographic, and not policy-oriented); e.g., lowland deciduous forests

Synonymy

Title

This field contains a superceded name for the plant. After a suitable “Use-for” function is in place in the simple search client, this entire column may be found obsolete. e.g., Alnus vindis ~= Alnus sinuata (Syn.)

Plant Family

Description

Family name in which this genus is found

Location

Coverage

The general location of the photo, which helps define the range or habitat. To aid cross-database searching, this will be translated to form of geographic name used in Mount St. Helens “location” field. There are only these categories: Cascades, Cougar Mt. E. Cascades, Enchantments, Mt. Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Mima Mounds, Olympics, N. Cascades, Puget Sound, Seattle, Tiger Mt., Wenatchees, Whidbey Is., NE Olympics, and W. Olympics. (Spellings and abbreviations will be consistent within and across databases, possibly translated by macro on input.)

Collection

Source

Slide collection: Plants of Western Washington (expanded by macro)

Date

Date

Publication date (year image published on Web); YYYY

File Format

Format

MIME type for this image: JPEG

Type

Type

SillImage

Roger del Moral initially assigns all metadata to an Excel spreadsheet for upload. Jim Gossett writes macros to expand static codes to controlled terms and phrases. Laura Lins is responsible for scanning and linking images, editing and completing metadata, and overall project coordination.