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Recently, approximately 2.75 million records (based on 13 million records held in FloraWeb)were made available to the GBIF network. FloraWeb is the central reopsitory for floristic mapping in Germany at the Federal Agency for Nature Protection.
This addition brings the total records brought to the GBIF network by data providers via the German network of GBIF nodes to approximately 3.7 million, which puts Germany just behind the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, the US and the UK in terms of number of records provided.
Records that Germany provides come from botanical and zoological natural history collections, botanical gardens, and microbial repositories. These records are served using the BioCASe protocol, which was developed in Germany within the context of a European research project. BioCASe allows use of the rich ABCD (Access to Biological Collection Data) data definition. ABCD allows the inclusion, in the data record, of image(s) of the specimen, its annotation (identification) histories, derivation of culture strains, and details on ownership and intellectual property rights (IPR).
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