Library and web service standards for information sharing in biology

GBIF
    Global Biodiversity
        Information Facility
        (a data portal)

blog entry (good)
    about GBIF and DiGIR

DiGIR
   Distributed Generic
      Information Retrieval

ABCD
   Access to Biological
      Collection Data
   (preferred in Europe to DiGIR,
    a "transport mechanism")

TAPIR
    TDWG Access Protocol for
        Information Retrieval
    (supposed to combine both
     DiGIR and ABCD)

GUIDs and DOIs blog entry
    by David Shorthouse

TDWG | projects | standards
   stds/protocols for sharing
       biodiversity data
   members | wiki

TAPIR
   TDWG Access Protocol for
       Information Retrieval

LSID
   Life Science Identifiers

Diatoms of Western NA
(Sarah Spaulding
wire frame

Algaebase

MANIS | portals

Darwin Core (TDWD wiki)
    versions
       --> fields explained!
    version 1.21

CrossRef
   DOI's for research content

DOI
   Digital Object Identifier

CONTENTdm® (Digital
   Collection Management
   Software)

GreenStone (digital
    library software)

Internet Scout portal
    alternative to above,
    preferred by H. Yager