ZFMK Biodiversity Data Center

Other names: ZFMK Natural History Collections - occurrence data, ZFMK Datenzentrum

The ZFMK Biodiversity Data Center is aimed at hosting, archiving, publishing and distributing data from biodiversity research and zoological collections. The Biodiversity Data Center handles and curates data on: - The specimens of the institutes collection, including provenance, distribution, habitat, and taxonomic data. - Observations, recordings and measurements from field research, monitoring and ecological inventories. - Morphological measurements, descriptions on specimens, as well as - Genetic barcode libraries, and - Genetic and molecular research data associated with specimens or environmental samples. For this purpose, suitable software and hardware systems are operated and the required infrastructure is further developed. Core components of the software architecture are: The DiversityWorkbench suite for managing all collection-related information. The Digital Asset Management system easyDB for multimedia assets. The description database Morph·D·Base for morphological data sets and character matrices.

Webpage:
https://www.zfmk.de/en/research/research-centres-and-groups/datacenter

Licence:
Name: CC
URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Tags:

biodiversity informatics data curation gfbio natural history collections research data

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