The Biological Collection Access Service for Europe, BioCASE, is a transnational network of biological collections of all kinds. BioCASE builds on the predecessor projects CDEFD, BioCISE, and ENHSIN. BioCASE enables widespread unified access to distributed and heterogeneous European collection and observational databases using open-source, system-independent software and open data standards and protocols. ... [Information of the supplier]
Biological collections are one of the main sources of information on biological diversity. The large quantity of information they represent and the fact that they are dynamic require, for their consultation and updating, the use of specialized computer tools. Gathering these collections in an information network allows not only for the connection of the main databanks, the updating of information and direct contact with specialists, but also access, exchange and consultation of data open to the public in general throughout the world. The World Biodiversity Information Network (REMIB) is a computerized system of biological information (it includes databases of a curatorial, taxonomic, ecological, cartographic, bibliographic, ethno-biological type, use of catalogues on natural resources and other subject matters), based on an academic inter-institutional decentralized and international organization, formed by research and higher education centers, both public and private, that possess both scientific biological collections and data banks. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
GRBio is the first-ever consolidated, comprehensive clearinghouse of information about biological collections in natural history museums, herbaria, and other biorepositories. This online-registry is a source for authoritative information about collections as well as validated, standardized data such as addresses, contacts, and values for the Darwin Core identifiers for institutions (InstitutionID) and collections (CollectionID). Personal collections can also be registered here, whether they belong to private collectors or are research collections that haven't yet been accessioned into an institutional collection. The Global Registry of Biorepositories is a merger of three prior registries and an ongoing collaboration among them: Index Herbariorum at the New York Botanical Garden, Biodiversity Collections Index (BCI) at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and Biorepositories.org created by the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) at the Smithsonian Institution. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
