BCI
The Biodiversity Collections Index (BCI) is building a central index to biodiversity reference collections. By issuing a globally unique identifier (GUID) for every natural history collection, researchers will be able to unambiguously identify the location of specimens they work on, and curators will be able to track usage of collections. BCI is thus a core component of the global infrastructure for biodiversity informatics and will be integrated in GBIF’s Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery System (GBRDS).
www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org
BioCASE
The Biological Collection Access Service (BioCASE) Protocol is derived from the DiGIR protocol and supports web-based searches for XML data. It has been used in particular for data exchange using the ABCD schema - www.biocase.org.
Biodiversity data
Biodiversity data are any data that present information about the world’s biodiversity, including species/observation data, general resource data and names data.
BIS, TDWG
Biodiversity Information Standards (formerly known as the Taxonomic Database Working Group, or TDWG) is an international body established to define standards for use in biological data projects - www.tdwg.org.
