863890c7-c5ce-4fd2-ad32-c3bdf510c2b2 https://www.verspreidingsatlas.nl/ipt/resource?r=flora-batava Flora Batava Laurens Sparrius FLORON Plant Conservation Netherlands

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0000-0002-4925-9289 Luiza Teixeira-Costa Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW)

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0000-0002-1405-8567 Esther van Gelder KB nationale bibliotheek

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0000-0002-4505-6302 custodianSteward Folgert Karsdorp Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW)

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0000-0002-5958-0551 principalInvestigator 2026-04-12 dut Flora Batava: people, plants, locations lists 11,500+ records of all species in the first illustrated flora of the Netherlands, published in 28 volumes between 1800 and 1934. The dataset includes information about the plants, the people who observed them in each locality, and the publication of each volume. KB, the National Library of the Netherlands holds both original and digitized source material. From the latter, data was segmented and extracted using a generative AI model (OpenAI’s GPT-4), then checked and corrected manually. Including social (e.g., observers’ names, sex) and historical information (e.g., old plant names, publication history), this dataset facilitates research in plant humanities, botanical heritage, and social history of science. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Observation GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.497 https://www.verspreidingsatlas.nl/ipt/archive.do?r=flora-batava The Netherlands and surroudings 1.978 8.438 53.645 49.325 1790-01-01 1934-12-31 notPlanned Laurens Sparrius FLORON Plant Conservation Netherlands

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0000-0002-4925-9289 For a detailed description see https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.497 Observations of plants and fungi published in the Flora Batava journal (1800–1934). Scans of the journal's pages were processed with Optical Character Recognition and Handwritten Text Recognition. Text segmentation was used to classify paragraphs with labels such as “species names”, “flowering time”, “classification”, “sexual characteristics”, “species traits”, “habitat”, “medicinal use”, “domestic use”. Observations were extracted from the habitat sections using Generative AI. Geocoding for locality names was done with Nominatim (R) and Generative AI. Data was enriched by combining data from the national checklists and a database with historical observers of flora and fauna. After data extraction, all entries were individually checked against the source material and manually corrected if needed regarding spellings and correctness of the information. Entries were again manually checked during geocoding and data enrichment. Luiza Teixeira-Costa 0000-0002-1405-8567 principalInvestigator Esther van Gelder 0000-0002-4505-6302 custodianSteward Laurens Sparrius 0000-0002-4925-9289 contentProvider Folgert Karsdorp 0000-0002-5958-0551 principalInvestigator 2026-04-10T14:46:00.647+02:00 dataset Teixeira-Costa L, van Gelder E, Sparrius L, Karsdorp, F (2026). Flora Batava (1800-1934): From Historical Citizen Science to Plant Humanities Dataset. Version 1.1. FLORON Plant Conservation Netherlands. Occurrence dataset. https://www.verspreidingsatlas.nl/ipt/resource?r=flora-batava&v=1.1 Teixeira-Costa L, van Gelder E, Sparrius LB, Karsdorp, F (2026). Flora Batava (1800-1934): From Historical Citizen Science to Plant Humanities Dataset. Journal of Open Humanities Data 12: 4. https://www.verspreidingsatlas.nl/ipt/logo.do?r=flora-batava 863890c7-c5ce-4fd2-ad32-c3bdf510c2b2/v1.1.xml