GBIFDEABCDCDEFDENHSINBIOCASEENBI... - common approaches to specimen networking
Hahn, Andrea. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin Dahlem, FUB Department of Biodiversity Informatics and Laboratories, Königin-Luise-Str 6-8, D - 14191 BerlinA number of projects are or have been dedicated to the aim of providing common web access to distributed biological specimen information. BIOCASE and ENBI as well as the botanical node in the German GBIF are among them. They use the ABCD schema for biological specimens and observations, which is one of the proposed data exchange standards of GBIF and TDWG. All these projects contributed to different stages in the development of a common protocol (the BioCASE protocol as a derivation of the DiGIR protocol) as well as to the development of the ABCD schema. At this point, the software components serving this protocol on provider and portal sides are publicly available, and a reference implementation demonstrates their interaction (see demonstration by Güntsch and Döring). Although ABCD is used in the present implementations, both protocol and software components are designed to be open for use with other schemas as well. The presentation will give an overview of the protocol and the interaction of its associated components as well as of the contribution of different projects to the current development.