Description
The dataset has been created as part of the research activities for the Nordic People and Plants project. The project aims to rediscover Nordic plant traditions. This dataset represents plant use data collected from two key Norwegian historical sources of plant knowledge: Flora Norvegica (J.E. Gunnerus, 1766-1776): A major Enlightenment natural history work in Norway. Published in Trondheim in 1766, this was the first explicitly Norwegian flora. It gives an insight in the Norwegian daily life in that period through descriptions of plant uses. Planter og Tradisjon: Floraen i levende tale og tradisjon i Norge 1925-1973 (O.A. Høeg, 1974): Norway's most important ethnobotanical compilation. Høeg corresponded with informants all over Norway to document what was left of oral traditions related to plants. Most of the data is presented as he received from the informants.
Data Records
The data in this checklist 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 3,426 records.
4 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
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Oslo. 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: e1fd4493-a11a-438d-a27f-ca3ca5152f6b. University of Oslo publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Checklist; Inventorythematic; Checklist
External data
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| Zenodo dump | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4047952 ASCII Microsoft Excel |
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Project Data
The dataset has been created as part of the research activities for the Nordic People and Plants project. The project aims to rediscover Nordic plant traditions. Plants have influenced how humans eat, dress and build their homes. In this project, we will search through different written sources such as plant names, archaeobotanical reports, iconographical sources, textual descriptions, cookbooks, black books, floras and fairy tales. Our sources span from Viking age sagas to modern day cookbooks. We want to study human-plant interactions and trace the cultural evolution of plant use from before the Viking age to today. The published plant use data has been collected from two Norwegian books belonging to different time periods: - Flora Norvegica (J.E. Gunnerus, 1766-1776) - Planter og Tradisjon: Floraen i levende tale og tradisjon i Norge 1925-1973 (O.A. Høeg, 1974)
| Title | Norwegian Plant uses from Flora Norvegica and Planter og tradisjon |
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| Funding | SAMKUL – Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger, Forskningsrådet |
| Study Area Description | Geographic: Norway Temporal: A.D. 1766-1776 (Gunnerus) and A.D. 1925-1974 (Høeg) Taxonomic: Plant species in Norway |
| Design Description | A good amount ethnobotanical knowledge is documented through history in books of various kinds that have the potential to contribute to studies on the transmission of plant knowledge. This dataset represents data collected from two key Norwegian historical sources of plant knowledge: Flora Norvegica (J.E. Gunnerus, 1766-1776): A major Enlightenment natural history work in Norway. Published in Trondheim in 1766, this was the first explicitly Norwegian flora. It gives an insight in the Norwegian daily life in that period through descriptions of plant uses. Planter og Tradisjon: Floraen i levende tale og tradisjon i Norge 1925-1973 (O.A. Høeg, 1974): Norway's most important ethnobotanical compilation. Høeg corresponded with informants all over Norway to document what was left of oral traditions related to plants. Most of the data is presented as he received from the informants. To organise the plant use data systematically, the use reports have been categorized into 10 main use categories with sub-categories under each. The geographical location and vernacular names mentioned with the use reports have also been documented. |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | e1fd4493-a11a-438d-a27f-ca3ca5152f6b |
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| https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=nhm-plant-uses |