IBF Project

"Setting up an Information Network on Biological Research Data gained in the Field up to the Sustainable Storage in a Primary Data Repository (I-B-F)" – a joint project funded by DFG.

Working Groups:

• IBF DiversityMobile and Data Synchronisation

• IBF Diversity Workbench and Data Repository

• IBF Eco

• IBF Fungi

• IBF Lichens

• IBF Orthoptera

• IBF Plants

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General:

• News & Events

• SelectedPublications

• Links

• IBF Datasets accessible by GBIF

• IBF Internal Sites

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DiversityMobile Content Services:

• Taxon lists services for DiversityMobile

• TK25 Maps Bavaria for DiversityMobile

• TNT services for DiversityMobile

• DiversityMobile IPR and Licenses

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DWB Services:

• DTN taxon lists concept and architecture

• Taxon lists services for GBOL and GBIF-D Projects

• Taxon lists references in the GBOL and IBF/DiversityMobile context

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IBF Description:

The IBF project is based on the development of the Diversity Workbench Framework and will expand the platform by a software application (“DiversityMobile”) for a smartphone or mobile device. The approach is to gain biological research data from the field by using a PDA with GPS functionality and a digital imagery option. Several user interfaces for two major biological communities allow biodiversity scientists and ecologists to gather and store monitoring data or complex biological data already in the field. The user interface of the PDA will be interchangeable and give access to taxonomic name, ecological descriptor, and general scientific term presets, and allow for selecting reference points in digitized topographic maps. The gathered data are transferred to a data repository at the IT center of the Bavarian Natural History Collections (SNSB) via data synchronisation between the databases involved and are further redistributed to end-users via various types of interfaces. Besides this integrated infrastructure, the data repository hosts schemata and generic interfaces for the data exchange with PDAs, wrappers (ABCD schema) and external applications for data analysis and presentation. The complete dataflow and working environment is built up in cooperation between four research groups. In the course of the development, new strategies of complex data access and structuring will be modelled and tested. This especially concerns more-dimensional interrelations between organisms in a temporal and spatial context.

IBF is working with biologists on-site and non-professional experts for gaining data in the field. Therefore the IBF portal pages devoted to user-specific technical infrastructure and with biological content are partly in German.