About the Data Center Network

The ten Data Centers listed below are are infrastructure partners in the GFBio broker network. They are are departments of science informatics and data infrastructures at recognized 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.

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.

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Data curation

Submitted data will be checked for quality and scope. If suitable for one of the data centers, the curators are starting to harmonise the data set. This entails checking for mandatory fields, converting values in standardised formats (such as date, time or coordinates) and using standardised vocabulary (metadata standards) to describe the data. The curation process takes effort and the curator relies on the continuous communication with the data submitter. After the data undergo curation, the data Findability and Reusability are greatly enhanced and the data are ready to be archived and subsequently published. Data can be placed under moratorium to be published at a later date, however, the extension of the moratorium period is limited and varies according to the data centers policy.

Shared archival

Biodiversity is influenced by many factors. Therefore, data generated to answer questions about biodiversity are often heterogeneous and looking at different aspects of biodiversity, such as the occurrence of species in a certain environment. To be able to archive the data in the most suitable repository, the heterogenous data sets are divided, archived in the respective data centers and interlinked via their persistent identifiers.

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Data Centers

Data Centers specialized on Plant, Nucleotide and Environmental Data

e!DAL-PGP – Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository

ENA – European Nucleotide Archive

e!DAL-PGP archives, curates and publishes cross-domain, plant-related research data that exceeds existing repositories due to their size or scope. This includes for example:

image collections from plant phenotyping and microscopy
unfinished genomes
genotyping data
visualizations of morphological plant models
data from mass spectrometry
software & documents

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Learn more about the data center ENA

PANGAEA – Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science

PANGAEA archives, curates and publishes multidisciplinary (e.g. geochemical, biological observational and occurrence) data from marine and terrestrial environments. Curation includes user support, definition of data set granularity, quality control, archival format transformation, metadata description and control. Supported data types are tabular data but also binary data, e.g multimedia.

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Data Centers at Natural Science Collections

BGBM – Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin

DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms

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LIB – Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change

MfN – Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin

The Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change is a foundation under public law. The Biodiversity Data Center as part of the LIB is aimed at hosting, archiving, publishing and distributing data from biodiversity research and zoological collections.

The Biodiversity Data Center handles and curates data on:

The specimens of the institutes collection, including provenance, distribution, habitat, and taxonomic data.
Observations, recordings and measurements from field research, monitoring and ecological inventories.
Morphological measurements, descriptions on specimens, as well as
Genetic barcode libraries, and
Genetic and molecular research data associated with specimens or environmental samples.

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SGN – Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung