rgbif R package

rgbif is an R package to search and retrieve data from the Global Biodiverity Information Facilty (GBIF). rgbif wraps R code around the GBIF API to allow you to talk to GBIF from R.

Date ( Publication): 2012-12-04

Date ( Revision): 2021-06-04

Status: On going / operational

Custodian

rOpenSci - John Waller

Keywords: data management

Keywords: biogeography

Keywords: marine

Keywords: terrestrial

Keywords: biological occurrence

Keywords: R

Keywords: data analysis

Access constraints: License

Use limitation: https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif/blob/master/LICENSE.md

OnLine resource: rgbif on GitHub (
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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OnLine resource: rgbif Website (
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Operation name: Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Web site: https://www.gbif.org

Description: GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth. Coordinated through its Secretariat in Copenhagen, the GBIF network of participating countries and organizations, working through participant nodes, provides data-holding institutions around the world with common standards and open-source tools that enable them to share information about where and when species have been recorded. This knowledge derives from many sources, including everything from museum specimens collected in the 18th and 19th century to geotagged smartphone photos shared by amateur naturalists in recent days and weeks. The GBIF network draws all these sources together through the use of data standards, such as Darwin Core, which forms the basis for the bulk of GBIF.org's index of hundreds of millions of species occurrence records. Publishers provide open access to their datasets using machine-readable Creative Commons licence designations, allowing scientists, researchers and others to apply the data in hundreds of peer-reviewed publications and policy papers each year. Many of these analyses—which cover topics from the impacts of climate change and the spread of invasive and alien pests to priorities for conservation and protected areas, food security and human health— would not be possible without this.