About the Data Center NetworkThe ten Data Centers listed below are are infrastructure partners in the GFBio broker network. They are entail seven Data Centers located at natural history collections throughout Germany and three Data Centers specialised in plant, nucleotide and environmental data. The Data Centers are departments of science informatics and data infrastructures at recognized recognised science institutions devoted to manage, store, archive and publish various types of bio- and geodiversity data. Data submitted through GFBio are transmitted to and curated by data curators at a matching GFBio Data Center, based on the profiles below. Data are available via various facets of the GFBio search portal, as well as on several other portals dependent on the Data Centers' scope, such as GBIF. The core group of ten GFBio data centers has agreed on a number of consensus documents, tools, data pipelines and standards and technical formats for interoperability as published in the GFBio Wiki. Each of the data centers has its own profile (see below) and provides a portfolio of services which is in accordance with the core tasks of the respective organisation. Data are available via various facets of the GFBio search portal and as far as appropriate visualisable via the VAT tool/ GeoEngine. |