Useful links

The GBIF world

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility - GBIF

• About GBIF
• GBIF data portal, search for more than 297.000.000 specimens and observations
• How to join the GBIF Network
• Informatics Infrastructure
• List of national GBIF nodes
• TDWG (Taxonomic Database Working Group)

BioCASE

• BioCASe Provider Software
  • Mapping guide for ABCD
• EDIT Observation and Specimen Explorer (developed with BioCASe portal software)
• Access to Biological Collection Data (ABCD)
• ABCDDNA (DNA extension for ABCD)

The DNA Bank Network

• Data portal of the DNA Bank Network, search for more than 41.000 DNA and tissue samples
• DNA Module and Specimen Tool
• Data Collection Form (zip file)

Partners of the DNA Bank Network

Botany

• Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
• The New York Botanical Garden, USA

Microbiology

• German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Zoology

• Bavarian State Collection of Zoology Munich, Germany
• Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Specimen data mangement

List of known powerful open source software solutions. Please don't hesitate to contact us, if you know further open source software.

• BRAHMS (Botanical Research and Herbarium Management System
• DaRWIN (Data Research Warehous Information Network)
• Diversity Workbench
• Specify
• Specimen Tool (as part of the DNA Module)