Netherlands provides major funding for digitisation projects
The Netherlands is fulfilling Paragraph 3.3d of the GBIF MoU by making "...other investments in biodiversity information infrastructure in support of GBIF". A recent grant of €2.35 million to a consortium of...
35+ Million Data Records in the GBIF (prototype) Data Portal
The prototype GBIF Data Portal now provides access to nearly 37 million specimen-data records from 66 data providers, as well as over 600,000 name-data records from 21 providers. These specimen- and name-data providers come from...
Unambiguously identifying taxonomic concepts
Will GUIDs such as LSIDs help to solve a problem common to many information systems: How does one make sure that all data and information objects are uniquely identified as to type, source, version, etc?
GBIF appears in June, 2004 BioScience
Dr. James L. Edwards was invited by the Editor to write a Viewpoint article for the journal BioScience.
CIRCA down for maintenance
On Sunday 6 June between 9-18 hours Copenhagen time circa.gbif.net will be down for maintenance.
