In the area of biodiversity information, standards cover a wide range of subjects such as the structure and transfer mechanisms of specimen occurrences data, data related to scientific names and names relations, metadata, descriptive data, organism interactions and others.
Here you will find information on the data standards most relevant for GBIF’s current activities:
If you are interested in other standards, their development procedures and recent activities, the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) wiki system provides an overview of all related activities in this field.
