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An Overview of Biodiversity Informatics (by Stan Blum)

Natural Science Collections Alliance - Biodiversity Information. Includes a glossary of terms and a much larger set of links than contained here.

International & National Biodiversity Information Organizations

• Biogeomancer

• Ecoinformatics.org

• ENBI - European Network for Biodiversity Information

• GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility

• ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System

• NCEAS - National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis

• NESCent - National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

• Naturserve - A network connecting science with conservation

• NBII - National Biological Information Infrastructure

• TDWG - Taxonomic Databases Working Group

Important Regional Biodiversity Informatics Projects

• NMBCC- New Mexico Biodiversity Collections Consortium

• MaPSTeDI - Mountains and Plains Spatio-Temporal Database Informatics Initiative

• SEINet - Southwest Environmental Information Network

• KU Bioinformatics - The Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas

Other Biodiversity Informatics Projects at the University of New Mexico

• CIPRES- Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research

• LTER Network - Long-term Ecological Research Network office

• SEEK - Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge

Taxonomic-Group Specific Informatics Systems

• MaNIS - Mammal Networked Information System

• ORNIS - ORNithological Information System

• HerpNet - Herpetology Network

• FishNet

Journals

• Biodiversity Informatics

• Phyloinformatics

• Applied Bioinformatics

Schemas

• ABCD - Access to Biological Collections Data

• Darwin Core

• Taxonomic Concept Transfer Schema