One of J.E. Lousely’s specimens from RNG including reference to a vice-county
In the UK much botanical recording was based around Watsonian Vice Counties starting in the south west with VC1 – West Cornwall with Scilly and ending with VC112 – Shetland. The equivalent in Ireland are those of Praeger – each prefixed with H for Hibernia – running from H1 – South Kerry to H40 – Londonderry. Andy Mabbett (@pigsonthewing) has created an entry on Wikidata for each vice-county. This will enable linking of data from many sources to the geographical region.
Around half of the UK plant specimens held at RNG record the vice-county including the historic collection by J.E. Lousley. We are in the process of moving our data to a new system and I can now look at ways to link our records in to the wikidata references.
Thank you for the kind words; it’s good to know my efforts will be useful.
Lousley is on Wikidata, too, of course: Q6206655.
That’s great news – RNG holds many of Lousely’s notes and collecting records. Are you planning entries for all UK herbaria on Wikidata too?