LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data
GBIF is an international open data infrastructure, funded by governments. It allows anyone, anywhere to access data about all types of life on Earth, shared across national boundaries via the internet.
By encouraging and helping institutions to publish data according to common standards, GBIF enables research not possible before, and informs better decisions to conserve and sustainably use the biological resources of the planet.
GBIF operates through a network of nodes, coordinating the biodiversity information facilities of Participant countries and organization, collaborating with each other and the Secretariat to share skills, experiences and technical capacity.
Developed by:
GBIF arose from a recommendation in 1999 by the Biodiversity Informatics Subgroup of the Megascience Forum, set up by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). That recommendation was endorsed by OECD science ministers and in 2001, GBIF was officially established through Memorandum of Understanding between participating governments.
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Identification
- Date ( Publication )
- 2015-09-04
- Status
- Completed
- Version
- 1.0
- Keywords
- global data
- Keywords
- Biodiversity
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Use limitation
- Terms of use https://www.gbif.org/terms
- OnLine resource
- GBIF Web address ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- Service Name
- IPT: The Integrated Publishing Toolkit
- Service Description
- A free open source software tool used to publish and share biodiversity datasets through the GBIF network.
- Service Reference (id)
- http://www.gbif.org/ipt
- Service Name
- Data validator
- Service Description
- A service that allows anyone with a GBIF-relevant dataset to receive a report on the syntactical correctness and the validity of the content contained within the dataset.
- Service Reference (id)
- https://www.gbif.org/tools/data-validator
- Service Name
- Suggest a dataset
- Service Description
- Share what you know about datasets you’d like GBIF to consider adding.
- Service Reference (id)
- https://www.gbif.org/suggest-dataset
- Service Name
- GBIF API
- Service Description
- A set of webservices to access data and metadata from GBIF.
- Service Reference (id)
- https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary
- Service Name
- Data processing
- Service Description
- Getting biodiversity data from publisher to user in near-real time.
- Service Reference (id)
- https://www.gbif.org/data-processing
- Service Name
- rgbif R package
- Service Description
- An interface to the GBIF API for the R statistical programming environment.
- Service Reference (id)
- https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/21ee3dfa-cf41-4de5-9167-3a8278a4983b
- Service Name
- MAXENT
- Service Description
- Software for modeling species niches and distributions.
- Service Reference (id)
- https://www.gbif.org/tool/81279/maxent
- Service Name
- Tools catalogue
- Service Description
- A catalogue listing useful tools.
- Service Reference (id)
- https://www.gbif.org/resource/search?contentType=tool
- Service Name
- Species matching
- Service Description
- Normalize species names from a csv file against the GBIF backbone.
- Service Reference (id)
- https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
- Service Name
- Name parser
- Service Description
- A simple html form to make use of the GBIF name parser.
- Service Reference (id)
- https://www.gbif.org/tools/name-parser
- Service Name
- Sequence ID
- Service Description
- This tool will query a blast database of the UNITE Species Hypothesis General FASTA release (a reference database for DNA barcoding of Fungi).
- Service Reference (id)
- https://www.gbif.org/tools/sequence-id
