Markus Döring1 & Renato De Giovanni2
1 Department of Biodiversity Informatics, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Koenigin-Luise-Str. 6-8, 14191 Berlin, Germany
2 Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental, CRIA, Av. Romeu Tórtima, 388, Barão Geraldo, 13084-791 Campinas SP, Brazil
The recently developed TDWG Access Protocol for Information Retrieval (TAPIR) integrates and exceeds the capabilities of its predecessors DiGIR and BioCASe. It will enable the biodiversity community to integrate their data with a wide spectrum of heterogeneous data sources, such as geographic or ecological information systems. It is an XML based abstract query language developed for distributed information systems that can cope with TDWG standards such as ABCD or Darwin Core for specimens and observations as well as TCS for taxonomic names.
This non-technical presentation will highlight the benefits of a single shared querying language as well as some new features unique to TAPIR that were not present in BioCASe or DiGIR.
We acknowledge support by GBIF for funding the TAPIR development as well as the DiGIR and BioCASe developer communities.