In recent years, CETAF (Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities) institutions have started to enrich their collection data with links to semantic resources (e.g. persons or geographical units). In this way, it is possible for the first time to represent distributed collections as a unified information space and to enhance them with various external resources. An example of this approach is this "Botany Pilot", in which diverse data on collectors of botanical specimens are made accessible by linking a reliable and stable person ID (e.g. a so called QID in Wikidata). This includes, for example, biographical data from Wikidata, specimens in different herbarium collections, publications in BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library) and, more recently, entries from https://bionomia.net/. Based on a single person identifier, the respective information is dynamically pulled together with linked data mechanisms from a growing number of web resources.

Best practices on CETAF identifiers in general are compiled at https://cetafidentifiers.biowikifarm.net/wiki/Main_Page.
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Participating institutions

Biography


Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser
  * 1784   † 1842
Austrian botanist (1784-1842)
Besser, Bess., W. Besser, W. S. J. G. von Besser, Wilbert S.J.G. von Besser, Вилибальд Готлибович Бессер

Claimed natural history specimens collected or identified by Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser


Scientific Name Country Institution Date
Schivereckia podolica (Andrz.) DC.NHMUK
Astragalus cornutus Pall.UkraineNHMUK
Conioselinum tataricum Hoffm.UkraineNHMUK
Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang.UkraineNHMUK
Iris humilis GeorgiUkraineNHMUK
Cardamine quinquefolia (M.Bieb.) Schmalh.NHMUK
Potentilla canescens BesserUkraineNHMUK
Helictotrichon desertorum subsp. basalticum (Podp.) HolubRussiaNHMUK
Rosa terebinthacea Besser ex Spreng.NHMUK
Allium savranicum BesserNHMUK

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Virtual International Authority File of Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser