Description
This historical dataset, available as "Pola" expedition: Mollusks - Biodiversity Heritage Library (biodiversitylibrary.org) pages 1-36, is related to the expeditions of the S. M. ship "Pola" in the eastern Mediterranean and the Adriatic. The great depths of the eastern Mediterranean and the Adriatic Sea are considered very poor, even poorer than those of the western basin. The whole report is separated into two parts. The first part deals with the threshing results in the eastern Mediterranean (Expeditions I-IV, 1890-1893), while the second those in the Adriatic (Expedition V, 1894). Each part is preceded by a list of the stations that have delivered molluscs, with a precise explanation of the geographical location, habitat, depth and date of the sampling event. This historical paper is digitised through a Citizen Science Workshop organised by the Hellenic Centre in Marine Research in Lecce, 15 November 2023, using the Zooniverse platform.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 54 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Dimitra Mavraki, Ioannis Rallis and Melina Loulakaki (2024).Digitization of "Pola" Expedition: Mollusks, in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic Sea, 1890-1894.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Hellenic Center for Marine Research. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 3be44a65-238e-4412-80ad-3e47c2775b85. Hellenic Center for Marine Research publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Citizen Science; Mediterranean Sea; Mollusca; Samplingevent; Observation
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Originator
- Curator ●
- Point Of Contact
https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6775-530X
Geographic Coverage
Pola Expedition took place in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Adriatic Sea.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [30.6, 14.414], North East [46.559, 34.277] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All taxa belong to Mollusca Phylum
| Class | Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Scaphopoda |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1890-08-14 / 1894-07-26 |
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Project Data
This is a historical paper and its digitisation took place in the framework of the EMODnet Biology phase 5.
| Title | EMODnet Biology phase 5 |
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| Design Description | The digitisation process of the historical paper, which is available online in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, started during the Citizen Science Workshop organised on 15 November 2023 in Lecce and ended after data curation of the Hellenic Centre Marine Research Data Management Team. |
Sampling Methods
The equipment used, as described in the original paper, is: small trawl, dredge samples, large hanging trawl, rake sampler and trawl.
| Study Extent | The whole report is separated into two parts. The first part deals with the threshing results in the eastern Mediterranean (Expeditions I-IV, 1890-1893), while the second those in the Adriatic (Expedition V, 1894). |
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Method step description:
- The process started by volunteers using the Zooniverse platform, following a methodical workflow with simple tasks supported by tutorial, guidelines, and tips for transcribing the data and transforming it into the Darwin Core standards – a widely accepted, machine-readable format. This approach ensures that volunteers with various educational backgrounds can seamlessly participate in the transcription and FAIRification process of this historical marine biodiversity data. Volunteers managed to successfully complete all tasks of the CS project built in the Zooniverse platform, in a period of 76 days. Their responses were extracted in .csv format and with a specific-designed script (https://github.com/melinalou/Emodnet5/tree/main) and manual modification, the data were transformed into a human-readable .xlsx format. To ensure data quality, online tools such as the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) taxon match tool (https://www.marinespecies.org/tutorial_taxonmatch.php) were employed for cross-referencing taxonomic information, while Marine Regions (https://www.marineregions.org/) and Map Maker (https://maps.co/) were used to correct coordinate uncertainties
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.25607/mu0n0i |
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| 3be44a65-238e-4412-80ad-3e47c2775b85 | |
| http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=pola |