Schema	iso19139
Purpose	Digitization has been a fast-growing process mostly in academic institutions for the preservation and dissemination of knowledge. In the global north, collections deposited in the libraries, natural history museums, and herbaria have been more or less digitized than in the global south. Therefore, for the conservation of the biological diversity and associated knowledge, documentation, digitization and analysis of the specimens of the global south are crucial. Lichens in the other hand is already the understudied and underprivileged group and demands further research and extension. This digitization project aims to fulfil that gap and contribute to the records of GBIF by digitizing lichens herbarium collections deposited in different herbaria in Nepal. The data produced after digitization will serve as the foundation of mycological knowledge of Nepal quantifying their availability at different deposition centres with every ancillary detail. Digitization of available lichens is also important for the lichenologists working at different institutions to understand their ecology, distribution, phenology and possible multidisciplinary research plans and; high school and university students to share and understand about such fungal groups. Furthermore, as Nepal is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, existing knowledge on lichens is crucial to understand the impacts of climate change on the less explored taxonomic group.
Descriptive Keyword	Occurrence, Biodiversity, Flora, Lichens, Specimen (theme) Nepal, HKH-BIF (place)

Metadata Record Info
Language	eng
Charset	utf8
Hierarchy Level	dataset
Date	2021-07-07T15:35:30
Standard Name	North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003

Contact
Name	Shiva Devkota	Email	shiva.devkota@gmail.com
Organization Name	Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS)	Voice	977 9841317188
Position name	Research Officer	Address	Nepal
Role	author

Identification Info
Title	Lichens Flora of Nepal at Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Date	2021-07-06
Date Type	publication
Abstract	This occurrence database contains records of the lichens based on the herbarium specimens deposited at the Natural History Museum (NHM), Tribhuvan University Nepal. Situated on the lap of a world heritage site Swayambhu Stupa, this is only natural history museum of Nepal with major objectives to collect, preserve and demonstrates flora, faunal and geological and other natural specimens.
Purpose	Digitization has been a fast-growing process mostly in academic institutions for the preservation and dissemination of knowledge. In the global north, collections deposited in the libraries, natural history museums, and herbaria have been more or less digitized than in the global south. Therefore, for the conservation of the biological diversity and associated knowledge, documentation, digitization and analysis of the specimens of the global south are crucial. Lichens in the other hand is already the understudied and underprivileged group and demands further research and extension. This digitization project aims to fulfil that gap and contribute to the records of GBIF by digitizing lichens herbarium collections deposited in different herbaria in Nepal. The data produced after digitization will serve as the foundation of mycological knowledge of Nepal quantifying their availability at different deposition centres with every ancillary detail. Digitization of available lichens is also important for the lichenologists working at different institutions to understand their ecology, distribution, phenology and possible multidisciplinary research plans and; high school and university students to share and understand about such fungal groups. Furthermore, as Nepal is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, existing knowledge on lichens is crucial to understand the impacts of climate change on the less explored taxonomic group.
Status	completed
Charset	utf8
Topic Category	biota
Spatial Representation Type	textTable

Cited Responsible Parties
Name	Shiva Devkota	Email	shiva.devkota@gmail.com
Organization Name	Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS)	Voice	977 9841317188
Position name	Research Officer	Address
Role	author

Name	Bimala Shakya	Email	bimalashakya2012@gmail.com
Organization Name	Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University	Voice	977 1 4271899
Position name	Assistant Professor	Address
Role	author

Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East	88.264	Geographic Extent West	79.958
Geographic Extent North	30.487	Geographic Extent South	26.274

Resource Maintenance Information
Maintenance and update frequency	unknown
User Defined Maintenance Frequency
Date of Next Update

Legal Constraints
Use Limitation	Devkota S, Shakya B (2021): Lichens Flora of Nepal at Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. v1.3. Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University. Dataset/Occurrence. http://rds.icimod.org:8080/hkh-bif/resource?r=lichens_nhm&v=1.3
Access Constraints	copyright
Use Constraints	copyright

Reference System Information
Code

Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level	dataset

Distributor Info
Email	metadata@icimod.org	Organization Name	ICIMOD
Voice	977-1-5275222	Position name
Address		Role	distributor

Transfer Option
Online Resource	HKH-BIF Portal