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Biological Collection Access Service for Europe (BioCASe)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum
Address:
Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin, PO: 14195 (Germany)
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
Croatia
Spain
Turkey
Portugal
Serbia
Germany
France
Finland
Iceland
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Sweden
Greece
Netherlands
Denmark
Belgium
Slovenia
Norway
Italy
Austria
United Kingdom
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational since 2006
Scientific Description
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
Observation data, Natural history archives, Data portals, Access to biological collection data, Online publication, Data networks, Species occurrence data, Biodiversity data, Open-access, Biological collection data, Web services
Classifications
RI Category
Bio-informatics Facilities
Collections
Earth, Ocean, Marine, Freshwater, and Atmosphere Data Centres
Collections of Biological Resources (e.g. Microorganisms, Biobanks and Seed Banks)
Databases
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Natural History Collections
Scientific Domain
Biological and Medical Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Information Science and Technology
Services
Primary biodiversity data access

Access to primary biodiversity information from heterogeneous, global sources.

Equipment
Servers

Server hard and software (Database servers, web servers).

Collaborations
Networks
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Europeana
Date of last update: 18/01/2018
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