From Historical Citizen Science to Plant Humanities Dataset

TY - JOUR

T1 - From Historical Citizen Science to Plant Humanities Dataset

AU - Teixeira-Costa, Luiza

AU - Van Gelder, Esther

AU - Sparrius, Laurens

AU - Karsdorp, F.B.

PY - 2026

Y1 - 2026

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.5334/johd.497

DO - 10.5334/johd.497

M3 - Article

SN - 2059-481X

VL - 12

JO - Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)

JF - Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)

ER -