Biological Collection Access Service for Europe (BioCASe)
http://www.biocase.org/whats_biocase/index.shtml
Core Data
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
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Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum
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Address:
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Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin, PO: 14195 (Germany)
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Location
Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin, PO: 14195 (Germany)
Structure
Type Of RI
Virtual
Coordinating Country
Germany
Participating Countries
Finland
France
Spain
Norway
Slovenia
Turkey
Italy
Croatia
Netherlands
Sweden
Portugal
Germany
Austria
Denmark
Luxembourg
Greece
United Kingdom
Iceland
Belgium
Serbia
Switzerland
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational
since 2006
Scientific Description
Mission and objectives
The Biological Collection Access Service for Europe(BioCASe) is a suite of standards, software packages and data portals enabling online publication and discovery of primary biodiversity (occurrence) data. The term "BioCASe" is used simultaneously for both the products developed and the network based upon these products.On one side, it includes tools allowing data providers to publish data to networks such as BioCASe and others. On the other side, data portal software can be used for aggregating data from several providers and granting users access to this unified data pool. Main components are- the Access to Biological Collection Data schema (ABCD schema),- the BioCASe protocol defining rules for transmitting schema-defined XML data (such as ABCD) across network,- the BioCASe Provider Software as a tool for publishing data using XML schemas (such as ABCD) and the BioCASe protocol,- and data portal software that can be used to set up arbitrary network.Currently, the BioCASe Provider Software is used in over 100 installations in 25 countries worldwide, publishing an estimated 35 million occurrence records. Five taxonomically or geographically specialized data portals exists, allowing users to access data published with BioCASe or other data provision tools.
RI Keywords
Biological collection data, Online publication, Observation data, Web services, Natural history archives, Data networks, Biodiversity data, Data portals, Open-access, Access to biological collection data, Species occurrence data
Classifications
RI Category
Natural History Collections
Bio-informatics Facilities
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Earth, Ocean, Marine, Freshwater, and Atmosphere Data Centres
Collections of Biological Resources (e.g. Microorganisms, Biobanks and Seed Banks)
Databases
Collections
Bio-informatics Facilities
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Earth, Ocean, Marine, Freshwater, and Atmosphere Data Centres
Collections of Biological Resources (e.g. Microorganisms, Biobanks and Seed Banks)
Databases
Collections
Scientific Domain
Biological and Medical Sciences
Information Science and Technology
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Information Science and Technology
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Services
Primary biodiversity data access
Access to primary biodiversity information from heterogeneous, global sources.
Equipment
Servers
Server hard and software (Database servers, web servers).
Additional Data
Collaborations
Networks
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Europeana