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Table 1.
The structure of the database is represented by the following tables and fields.
| Tables | Fields |
|---|---|
| Main Data | recordNumber – individual record number (increment numbers, formatted «FReDY-xxxxx»); originalNameUsage – the names of the species as reported in the source; scientificName – name of species, in accordance with modern taxonomy and nomenclature data (filled automatically with a query from the Species table); identificationQualifier – the quality of the identification (for notes like cf., aff.); taxonRemarks – notes about the discrepancy in spelling of the species names; taxonRank – the taxonomic rank of the entry given in the scientificName field; genus – genus (filled automatically with a query from the scientificName field); group – the traditional group (filled automatically with a query from the Taxonomy table, the term is absent in DwC); family – family (filled automatically with a query from the Taxonomy table); order – order (filled automatically with a query from the Taxonomy table); bibliographicCitation – reference to the literature source reporting the registration of the species; stateProvince – the highest administrative subdivision of Russia (language – English, source – Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn); county – rayon (language – English, source of names – Yandex.Maps); locality – location of the find (language – English, source of names – Yandex.Maps); verbatimLocality – the location of the find in the original (Russian) language as reported in the source; protectedArea – the territory of protected areas (term is absent in DwC); habitat – habitat (description of vegetation type, landscape and / or micro-conditions, language – English); verbatimHabitat – habitat in the original (Russian) language (term is absent in DwC); catalogNumber – herbarium number of the record, if reported in publication; eventDate – the date of registration of the find, if reported in publication; decimalLatitude – latitude (Decimal degrees); decimalLongitude – longitude (Decimal degrees); geodeticDatum – datum (most often WGS84); coordinateUncertaintyInMeters – the approximation of the coordinate (see DwC definition) |
| Synonymy | A list of species names and corresponding current synonyms (filled in manually by the community of specialists [3]) |
| References | Bibliographic records (about 20 standard bibliographic fields) |
| Geography | Geographic tree from Rayon to Country (built on the basis of Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names and Yandex.Maps) |
| Taxonomy | Taxonomic tree including group, order, family and genus (compiled manually based on a number of taxonomic sources) |
| Account | Used to obtain statistical information using queries, for example, unique lists of species for individual territories and taxonomic analyses |
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