About the Data Center Network

The ten Data Centers listed below are infrastructure partners in the GFBio broker network. They entail seven Data Centers located at natural history collections located throughout Germany and three Data Centers specialised in planplant, nucleotide and environmental data. The Data Centers are departments of science informatics and data infrastructures at 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.