This seminar was organized as part of the BIFA Project “Cleaning and digitizing plant specimen records from Heilongjiang Province”, (BIFA5_031) and was attended by a group of 16 data experts, plant taxonomy experts, biodiversity experts, historical geography experts, and students to discuss tools for data cleaning and the data obtained by the project team.
During the seminar:
- various tools such as TNRS, LVCP, POWP, WCSP, WHP, and those provided by GBIF were compared;
- characteristics of the data; how to deal with the historical evolution of administrative divisions, the conversion of geographic units to organizational units, were discussed; and
- a set of workflows were developed.