Freier Zugang zu den Informationen der Artenvielfalt - Wie werde ich Teil der Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)?

Abstract

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility is an international initiative of countries and organizations that aims at providing free access over the internet to the world's existing primary data on biodiversity. This article gives a short review of the goals and the organization of GBIF and its basic principles, illustrates the architecture and data flows within the network and illuminates the standards, protocols and schemas used for these purposes and their implementation. It describes the required steps for connecting an existing collection database to the GBIF network and the potential support by the GBIF helpdesk.

Keywords

Biodiversity, GBIF, GBIF-D, database, network, collection, specimens, observations, XML, ABCD schema, provider software, Python wrapper, BioCASe protocol, mapping, search portal.