LIB Biodiversity Data Center
The LIB Biodiversity Data Center is constituted by the Biodiversity Informatics section and the IT department at LIB. It is therewith part of the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB). The GFBio data center is part of the LIB Biodiversity Data Center.
The data center provides data-flows, tools and services for LIB's research collections that have a focus on the terrestrial fauna with a worldwide coverage.
One of the collections is the Biobank that offers a specialized storage facility for the long-term storage of Tissue and DNA samples and is connected to the Global Genome Network.
All data are stored in the collection management framework Diversity Workbench (diversityworkbench.net) including field- and collection data, as well as sequence and trace data from the German Barcode of Life project.
The Morphological Description and Multimedia Database Morph·D·Base is developed in the Biodiversity Informatics section, housed at LIB and is used for storing, archiving and dissemination of scientific multimedia content.
Data are published using the ABCD standard and the BioCASe Provider Software.
Scientific data curation services (incl. taxonomic services)
The taxonomic expertise and interest is that of the LIB.
Special expertise in various groups of terrestrial animals exists. It is a precondition to successfully serve the GBIF-D node Vertebrates.
Data domains
Our first preference is to manage data of the natural history collection domain. Apart from this we are specialized to manage, store and archive observation/monitoring data.
IT services
Data submission and accession:
- Mapping services for DiversityCollection Import
Data integration and management:
- Diversity Workbench metadata catalog and repositories; remote data management by researchers possible.
- Morph·D·Base and easyDB multimedia data repository.
Data publication:
- Metadata on species occurences: collections.leibniz-lib.de, and GBIF Data publisher
- Media: Morph·D·Base and easyDB Asset Management