The Global
Biodiversity

Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an
international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on
biodiversity available via the
Internet

Internet using web services. The data
are provided by many institutions from around the world; GBIF's
information architecture makes these data accessible and searchable
through a single portal. Data available through the GBIF portal are
primarily distribution data on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes
for the world, and scientific names data.
The mission of the Global
Biodiversity

Biodiversity information Facility (GBIF) is
to facilitate free and open access to biodiversity data worldwide to
underpin sustainable development. Priorities, with an emphasis on
promoting participation and working through partners, include
mobilising biodiversity data, developing protocols and standards to
ensure scientific integrity and interoperability, building an
informatics architecture to allow the interlinking of diverse data
types from disparate sources, promoting capacity building and
catalysing development of analytical tools for improved
decision-making.
GBIF strives to form informatics linkages among digital data resources
from across the spectrum of biological organisation, from genes to
ecosystems, and to connect these to issues important to science,
society and sustainability by using georeferencing and GIS tools. It
works in partnership with other international organisations such as
the
Catalogue of Life
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Catalogue of Life partnership,
Biodiversity

Biodiversity Information Standards,
the
Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), the Encyclopedia of
Life (EOL), and GEOSS.
See also[edit]
ABCD Schema
Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)
Darwin Core
Global biodiversity
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Images from GBIF.
GBIF website
Short description of GBIF
GBIF network
Data publishers
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