GBIF Germany: Plants, Algae & Protists
Deutsche Version
Responsible Institute:
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
Contact
Dr. Regine Jahn
Coordinator Botany, Algae and Protists
r.jahn[at]bgbm.org
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem,
Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Sabine von Mering
GBIF-D Coordination Team, Botany
s.vonmering[at]bgbm.org
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem,
Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Wolf-Henning Kusber
GBIF-D Coordination Team, Algae and Protists
w.h.kusber[at]bgbm.org
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem,
Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Description
The Botanical Node of GBIF Germany is committed to provide free and open access to biodiversity data for use in science, teaching, learning, and the management of natural resources. Its aim is to establish a comprehensive virtual collection of botanical biodiversity data, comprising herbarium specimen, data of living organisms in botanical gardens, and data from field observations.
The German Botanical Node has been established at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM) of the Freie Universität Berlin in close collaboration with ten German botanical institutions and five other partner institutions as part of the German contribution to GBIF International. It represents all flowering plants, ferns, and mosses and also includes algae and protists, while lichens, fungi and myxomycetes are covered by the German Mycology node located at the Botanische Staatssammlung München.
Currently, the Botanical Node of GBIF Germany delivers more than 4.8 million botanical records (incl. nearly 100,000 multimedia files) to the international GBIF network.
A German portal for botanical collections and databases has been installed and can be used for searches on German biodiversity data. All data are also delivered to GBIF International in order to contribute to a freely and openly accessible virtual collection of worldwide primary biodiversity data.
The Botanical Node of Germany will primarily focus on improvements in the efficiency of herbarium digitizations and a better integration of botanical data from monitoring activities into the GBIF network. It will also put greater emphasis on the inclusion of microscopic organisms.
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) grant 01 LI 1001 A: Joint research project "GBIF-D: Kompetenzzentren innovativer Datenmobilisierung"
[28.04.2011]
