David Remsen – Biodiversity Informatics: GBIF’s role in linking information through scientific names

Event Date: 28 October 2011
Flett Lecture Theatre
Natural History Museum

Anchoring Biodiversity Information:

From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond

David Remsen
Biodiversity Informatics: GBIF’s role in linking information through scientific names

Senior Programme Officer. Electronic Catalog of Names of Known Organisms
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark
Email: dremsen@gbif.org

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility provides access to primary biodiversity data. It currently provides access to over 300 million data records from over 8000 different databases. Data customers expect to be able to retrieve data records organised around taxa. The challenges in integrating these data, originating in different sources, is considerable and requires access to both taxonomic and nomenclatural authority files. These challenges and the subsequent capabilities these resources enables are presented.