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<eml:eml scope="system" system="https://dataportal.senckenberg.de" packageId="4faa3311-53a5-4509-8a79-873f7254fc8c" xsi:schemaLocation="https://eml.ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.2.0" xmlns:eml="https://eml.ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.2.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><dataset><title>SeSam West Africa Collection Data</title><creator><individualName><givenName>Marco</givenName><surName>Schmidt</surName></individualName><organizationName>Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), EU project UNDESERT</organizationName><address /></creator><abstract><para>Currently c. 15000 herbarium specimens digitized in SeSam (http://sesam.senckenberg.de/), the more recent ones usually with GPS coordinates.</para></abstract><keywordSet><keyword> collection data</keyword><keyword> herbarium specimens</keyword><keyword> west africa</keyword><keyword>plants</keyword></keywordSet><coverage><geographicCoverage><geographicDescription>West Africa, with a focus on Burkina Faso</geographicDescription><boundingCoordinates><westBoundingCoordinate>-2.0</westBoundingCoordinate><eastBoundingCoordinate>-2.0</eastBoundingCoordinate><northBoundingCoordinate>13.0</northBoundingCoordinate><southBoundingCoordinate>13.0</southBoundingCoordinate></boundingCoordinates></geographicCoverage><temporalCoverage><rangeOfDates><beginDate><calendarDate>1990</calendarDate></beginDate><endDate><calendarDate>2012</calendarDate></endDate></rangeOfDates></temporalCoverage></coverage><contact><individualName><givenName>Marco</givenName><surName>Schmidt</surName></individualName><organizationName>Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), EU project UNDESERT</organizationName><address /><electronicMailAddress>marco.schmidt@senckenberg.de</electronicMailAddress></contact><methods> <methodStep> <description> <section> <title>Herbarium collection data</title><para>Entry in SeSam by student assistants directly from the specimen labels or field books</para></section></description></methodStep></methods></dataset></eml:eml>