Distribution of Oklahoma Amphibians and Reptiles by Recorded Sightings
Metadata:
- Identification_Information:
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- Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Charles Carpenter
- Publication_Date: Unpublished Material
- Title:
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Distribution of Oklahoma Amphibians and Reptiles
by Recorded Sightings
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Database
- Description:
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- Abstract:
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DOKARRS is a database of recorded sightings of
amphibians and reptiles in Oklahoma. Records have
been entered by students, researchers, enthusiasts
and others. Dr. Charles Carpenter, herpetologist
at the University of Oklahoma, began the database
in the mid 1980s. The most recent entries are
dated 1990. This database has been converted from its original mainframe database to a Unix-based MySQL database (version 3.22.25) so that it can more easily accessed via the World Wide Web.
- Purpose:
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DOKARRS is intended as a repository for all field
records of both sighted and collected amphibians
and reptiles in Oklahoma. The information in the
database is intended for public use as well as for
academic research purposes.
- Supplemental_Information:
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Genera and species scientific names were
derived from either: 1) Webb, R.G. 1970. Reptiles of
Oklahoma. A Stovall Museum Publication, U.
Oklahoma Press, Norman, or 2) Conant, R. 1975. A
Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern
and Central United States. Houghton-Mifflin Co.,
Boston. Dr. Carpenter retained the family
Iguanidae for the database.
- Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Range_of_Dates/Times:
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- Beginning_Date: 1849
- Ending_Date: 1991
- Currentness_Reference: ground condition
- Status:
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- Progress: In work
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Irregular
- Spatial_Domain:
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- Description_of_Geographic_Extent: State of Oklahoma
- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -103.051
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -94.392
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 37.178
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 33.417
- Keywords:
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Theme_Keyword: Oklahoma
- Theme_Keyword: Amphibians
- Theme_Keyword: Reptiles
- Theme_Keyword: Catalogue
- Theme_Keyword: Distribution Records
- Access_Constraints:
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TSO account and access fo files on the account
DOKARRS must be on. DOKARRS is accessed in GIPSY,
a data processing system developed at the
University of Oklahoma.
- Use_Constraints:
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Dataset credit required. The Oklahoma Biological
Survey does not vouch for the accuracy of any
records in DOKARRS.
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Dan Hough
- Contact_Organization: Oklahoma Biological Survey
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 111 East Chesapeake St.
- City: Norman
- State_or_Province: Oklahoma
- Postal_Code: 73019
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (405) 325-4034
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (405) 325-7702
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dhough@ou.edu
- Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday Through Friday
- Data_Set_Credit:
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Oklahoma Biological Survey, University of
Oklahoma, Norman.
- Native_Data_Set_Environment: GIPSY
- Data_Quality_Information:
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- Attribute_Accuracy:
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- Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
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No attempts have been made to verify the accuracy
of species identification, nor has any systematic
quality control been applied to data entry.
- Logical_Consistency_Report: None.
- Completeness_Report:
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The database was created to store sightings
information contributed by many different people.
There are also 1608 museum records from the
University of Michigan, and 1042 museum records
from the Carnegie Museum. Both museums
contributed records of their Oklahoma amphibian
and reptile collections. Many records contain
incomplete fields and/or mis-spellings of county
or place names. The minimum requirement for data
entry was a scientific name and a locality, though
the latter had no specific criteria. No quality
control was ever applied to data entry, though Dr.
Carpenter was responsible for deciding what
records should be added to DOKARRS.
- Taxonomic_System:
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- Classification_System_or_Authority:
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- Classification_System_Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Webb, R. G.
- Publication_Date: 1970
- Title: Reptiles of Oklahoma
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Norman
- Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
- Originator: Conant, R.
- Publication_Date: 1975
- Title:
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A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of
Eastern and Central United States
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Boston
- Publisher: Houghton-Mifflin
- Classification_System_Modifications: Dr. Carpenter retained the family IGUANIDAE.
- Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
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- Indirect_Spatial_Reference:
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Location is provided by county name
and by referencing the observation site by its
distance to a nearby town or landscape feature.
Distance units in miles, usually miles of road.
- Spatial_Reference_Information:
- Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
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- Detailed_Description:
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- Entity_Type:
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- Entity_Type_Label: Observations
- Entity_Type_Definition:
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Sightings of individuals or populations of
amphibians or reptiles in Oklahoma.
- Entity_Type_Definition_Source:
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Dr. Charles Carpenter. 1999. DOKARRS. Electronic
mail message to Caryn Vaughn, Oklahoma Biological
Survey, Norman.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: obsnum
- Attribute_Definition: Observation number
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain:
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Unique record number, beginning with 1. No maximum
value.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: class
- Attribute_Definition: Taxonomic Class
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: family
- Attribute_Definition: Taxonomic family
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: genus
- Attribute_Definition:
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Taxonomic genus name as indicated in Webb, 1970,
or Conant, 1975.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: species
- Attribute_Definition:
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Taxonomic species name, as indicated by Webb,
1970, or Conant, 1975.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: comname
- Attribute_Definition:
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Common name, as indicated by Webb,
1970, Conant, 1975, Carpenter and Krupa, 1989, or Stebbins, 1998. Checklist available at http://www.cowboy.net/~shipman/chklist.html. Common names were assigned from scientific names when unambiguous.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: county
- Attribute_Definition: County in Oklahoma where observation was made.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: local
- Attribute_Definition:
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Location described as distance in miles or
kilometers from a town, park or landscape feature
along a numbered state highway or other road, such
that it could be located on a map of Oklahoma.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: obsvr
- Attribute_Definition: Person or persons recording the observation.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field. Name of observer.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: day
- Attribute_Definition: Day of observation
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field. Day of the month.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: month
- Attribute_Definition: Month of observation
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field. Month of the year.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: year
- Attribute_Definition: Year of observation.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field. Year.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: number
- Attribute_Definition:
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Number of individuals of a species observed at
this locality on this date.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Range_Domain:
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- Range_Domain_Minimum: 1
- Range_Domain_Maximum: No maximum
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: habitat
- Attribute_Definition:
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First the general habitat type, i.e., hardwood
forest, and then specifically where observed,
i.e., under large rock on hillside, etc.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: remarks
- Attribute_Definition:
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Brief description of condition or observed
behavior; may include specimen numbers from
collection
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: museum
- Attribute_Definition:
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Museum when the specimen resides if record is a museum specimen. This information was extracted from the remarks or habitat field from the mainframe database.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: citatin
- Attribute_Definition:
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Citation in which sighting was mentioned. This information was extracted from the remarks field from the mainframe database.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: DOKARRS database field
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Text field
- Distribution_Information:
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- Distributor:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Dan Hough
- Contact_Organization: Oklahoma Biological Survey
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 111 East Chesapeake St.
- City: Norman
- State_or_Province: Oklahoma
- Postal_Code: 73019
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (405) 325-4034
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (405) 325-7702
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dhough@ou.edu
- Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday Through Friday
- Distribution_Liability:
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Although we have processed these data successfully
on a computer system at the Oklahoma Biological
Survey, you must recognize that we cannot warranty
the accuracy or utility of the data. OBS data may
require a certain level of biological expertise
for proper analysis, interpretation and
application. Our staff is available to advise you
on the technical aspects of these data. This
disclaimer applies both to individual use of the
data and aggregate use with other data. We
strongly recommend that you pay careful attention
to the contents of the metadata file associated
with these data. The Oklahoma Biological Survey
shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect
use of these data. It is your responsibility to
insure that the data you obtain from us are not
misapplied.
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www.biosurvey.ou.edu/dokadesc.html
- Fees: None
- Metadata_Reference_Information:
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- Metadata_Date: 19991028
- Metadata_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Dan Hough
- Contact_Organization: Oklahoma Biological Survey
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 111 East Chesapeake St.
- City: Norman
- State_or_Province: Oklahoma
- Postal_Code: 73019
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (405) 325-4034
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (405) 325-7702
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dhough@ou.edu
- Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday Through Friday
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NBII Content Standard for National Biological
Information Infrastructure Metadata
- Metadata_Standard_Version: December 1995
Generated by mp on Mon Nov 01 16:27:13 1999.
Modified by Dan Hough, 12 September 2000