Home / Cataloging and Metadata Services / Metadata Implementation Group / Data Dictionaries / Plants of Western Washington Collection

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.