Provider
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG), State Natural Science Collections of Bavaria/SNSB IT Centre, German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
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Area of application
Planning, Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing, Support & Training

Link
https://dwb.gfbio.org/

Support
Helpdesk

The DWB Virtual Training Environment instances at GWDG provide free remote access to Diversity Workbench (DWB) clients and SQL database software. The access is organized for single users by NFDI authentication with DWB authorization. The instances include test data from research projects and provide access to terminologies and taxonomies. Data exchange with external resources is possible. The parent instance at SNSB and the child instances at GWDG are regularly technically updated (SaaS). 

Provider
German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None; account is required for personal support

Area of application
Planning

Link
https://dmp.gfbio.org

Support
Helpdesk

The GFBio Data Management Planning Service consists of a self-service tool and optional individual support to generate data management plans (DMPs) for biodiversity-related projects. The tool is structured according to the categories (1) General Project Information, (2) Data Collection, (3) Documentation and Metadata, (4) Ethics and Legal Compliance and (5) Preservation and Sharing. Based on the input, a data management plan will be developed with personal support from our DMP officer.

Provider
German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Planning, Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing, Support & Training

Link
www.gfbio.org

Support
Helpdesk

The GFBio Portal is a single point of access to data and associated services along the Research Data Lifecycle maintained by the German Federation for Biological Data in Bremen. Researchers can access data from out ten domain-oriented data centers as well as tried-and-tested tools and expert support from planning through managing, analysing, publishing and archiving data. The GFBio wiki and instructive materials from our roadshows provide know-how on all aspects of biological, ecological and environmental data.  

Provider
Free University of Berlin, Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin

Requirements
Server with running Python and web server software; primary biodiversity data (observations, specimens) in relational database or Excel/CSV files

Area of application
Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving

Link
www.biocase.org/provider_software

Support
Helpdesk

The BioCASe (Biological Collections Access Service) Provider Software is an XML data binding middleware for publishing data from a relational database to an information network according to the FAIR principles. After installing BioCASe and configuring it for a given database, the published information will be accessible as a BioCASe web service, which means it can be retrieved with BioCASe protocol requests. Even though BioCASe can be used for any conceptual XML data schema, its main field of application is the publication of occurrence data from specimen or observational databases to primary biodiversity information networks such as the BioCASe network and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, using the ABCD data standard.

Provider
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG), State Natural Science Collections of Bavaria/SNSB IT Centre, German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Planning, Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing, Support & Training

Link
https://dwb.gfbio.org/

Support
Helpdesk

The DWB Virtual Training Environment instances at GWDG provide free remote access to Diversity Workbench (DWB) clients and SQL database software. The access is organized for single users by NFDI authentication with DWB authorization. The instances include test data from research projects and provide access to terminologies and taxonomies. Data exchange with external resources is possible. The parent instance at SNSB and the child instances at GWDG are regularly technically updated (SaaS). 

Provider
German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving

Link
https://submissions.gfbio.org

Support
Helpdesk

The GFBio Data Submission Service allows the submission of (heterogeneous) biological, ecological and environmental data sets to a federated network of data centers. The datasets are being reviewed and are curated by domain experts from the corresponding GFBio data center. The curated data sets are then long-term archived and published with a persistent identifier (e.g. DOI, Accession numbers). Heterogenous data can be archived and published in two or more different data centers and is then interlinked via their persistent identifiers.

Provider
German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Planning, Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing, Support & Training

Link
www.gfbio.org

Support
Helpdesk

The GFBio Portal is a single point of access to data and associated services along the Research Data Lifecycle maintained by the German Federation for Biological Data in Bremen. Researchers can access data from out ten domain-oriented data centers as well as tried-and-tested tools and expert support from planning through managing, analysing, publishing and archiving data. The GFBio wiki and instructive materials from our roadshows provide know-how on all aspects of biological, ecological and environmental data.  

Provider
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity

Requirements
User account; running BioCASe provider software instance

Area of application
Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing

Link
https://bms.gfbio.org/

Support
Helpdesk

The BioCASe Monitor Service (BMS) is a web-based tool for coordinators of distributed data networks that provide information to web portals and data aggregators via the BioCASe Provider Software. It has three main purposes: (1) monitoring the provider’s progress in data provision, (2) facilitating checks of data mappings with a focus on the structure, plausibility and completeness, and (3) verifying compliance of provided data for transformation into other target schemas. 

Provider
Free University of Berlin, Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin

Requirements
Server with running Python and web server software; primary biodiversity data (observations, specimens) in relational database or Excel/CSV files

Area of application
Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving

Link
www.biocase.org/provider_software

Support
Helpdesk

The BioCASe (Biological Collections Access Service) Provider Software is an XML data binding middleware for publishing data from a relational database to an information network according to the FAIR principles. After installing BioCASe and configuring it for a given database, the published information will be accessible as a BioCASe web service, which means it can be retrieved with BioCASe protocol requests. Even though BioCASe can be used for any conceptual XML data schema, its main field of application is the publication of occurrence data from specimen or observational databases to primary biodiversity information networks such as the BioCASe network and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, using the ABCD data standard.

Provider
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG), State Natural Science Collections of Bavaria/SNSB IT Centre, German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Planning, Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing, Support & Training

Link
https://dwb.gfbio.org/

Support
Helpdesk

The DWB Virtual Training Environment instances at GWDG provide free remote access to Diversity Workbench (DWB) clients and SQL database software. The access is organized for single users by NFDI authentication with DWB authorization. The instances include test data from research projects and provide access to terminologies and taxonomies. Data exchange with external resources is possible. The parent instance at SNSB and the child instances at GWDG are regularly technically updated (SaaS). 

Provider
German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving

Link
https://submissions.gfbio.org

Support
Helpdesk

The GFBio Data Submission Service allows the submission of (heterogeneous) biological, ecological and environmental data sets to a federated network of data centers. The datasets are being reviewed and are curated by domain experts from the corresponding GFBio data center. The curated data sets are then long-term archived and published with a persistent identifier (e.g. DOI, Accession numbers). Heterogenous data can be archived and published in two or more different data centers and is then interlinked via their persistent identifiers.

Provider
German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Planning, Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing, Support & Training

Link
www.gfbio.org

Support
Helpdesk

The GFBio Portal is a single point of access to data and associated services along the Research Data Lifecycle maintained by the German Federation for Biological Data in Bremen. Researchers can access data from out ten domain-oriented data centers as well as tried-and-tested tools and expert support from planning through managing, analysing, publishing and archiving data. The GFBio wiki and instructive materials from our roadshows provide know-how on all aspects of biological, ecological and environmental data.  

Provider
BIBI/University of Bielefeld

Requirements
LS login; BIIGLE account

Area of application
Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing

Link
www.biigle.de

Support
Helpdesk

BIIGLE is a web-based software for image and video annotation that enables collaborative research on large datasets. It offers tools for manual and computer-assisted annotation, quality control and the collaboration on custom taxonomies to describe objects. BIIGLE is freely available and can be installed in cloud environments, a local network or on mobile platforms during research expeditions. The public instance on biigle.de is free for non-commercial use.

Provider
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity

Requirements
User account; running BioCASe provider software instance

Area of application
Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing

Link
https://bms.gfbio.org/

Support
Helpdesk

The BioCASe Monitor Service (BMS) is a web-based tool for coordinators of distributed data networks that provide information to web portals and data aggregators via the BioCASe Provider Software. It has three main purposes: (1) monitoring the provider’s progress in data provision, (2) facilitating checks of data mappings with a focus on the structure, plausibility and completeness, and (3) verifying compliance of provided data for transformation into other target schemas. 

Provider
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG), State Natural Science Collections of Bavaria/SNSB IT Centre, German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Planning, Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing, Support & Training

Link
https://dwb.gfbio.org/

Support
Helpdesk

The DWB Virtual Training Environment instances at GWDG provide free remote access to Diversity Workbench (DWB) clients and SQL database software. The access is organized for single users by NFDI authentication with DWB authorization. The instances include test data from research projects and provide access to terminologies and taxonomies. Data exchange with external resources is possible. The parent instance at SNSB and the child instances at GWDG are regularly technically updated (SaaS). 

Provider
German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Planning, Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing, Support & Training

Link
www.gfbio.org

Support
Helpdesk

The GFBio Portal is a single point of access to data and associated services along the Research Data Lifecycle maintained by the German Federation for Biological Data in Bremen. Researchers can access data from out ten domain-oriented data centers as well as tried-and-tested tools and expert support from planning through managing, analysing, publishing and archiving data. The GFBio wiki and instructive materials from our roadshows provide know-how on all aspects of biological, ecological and environmental data.  

Provider
German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Discovering & Exploring

Link
https://search.gfbio.org

Support
Helpdesk

The GFBio Data Search allows users to search for datasets archived and published in the GFBio data centres. Data from a total of seven collection data centres and three domain-specific repositories can be searched for biological, ecological and environmental data. Data submitted, archived and published via the GFBio Data Submission Service can also be found via Data Search.

Provider
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity

Requirements
User account; running BioCASe provider software instance

Area of application
Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing

Link
https://bms.gfbio.org/

Support
Helpdesk

The BioCASe Monitor Service (BMS) is a web-based tool for coordinators of distributed data networks that provide information to web portals and data aggregators via the BioCASe Provider Software. It has three main purposes: (1) monitoring the provider’s progress in data provision, (2) facilitating checks of data mappings with a focus on the structure, plausibility and completeness, and (3) verifying compliance of provided data for transformation into other target schemas. 

Provider
Free University of Berlin, Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin

Requirements
None

Area of application
Accessing & Archiving

Link
https://transformation.gfbio.org

Support
Helpdesk

Web-based service that transforms biodiversity-related data between different community formats such as ABCD (Access to Biological Collections Data), CDM Light (Common Data Model) and PANGAEA PanSimple. The currently supported transformations are:

• ABCD > PANGAEA PanSimple
• ABCD > HTML Landing Page
• ABCD (archive) > DarwinCore Archive
• CDM Light > PANGAEA PanSimple

Provider
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG), State Natural Science Collections of Bavaria/SNSB IT Centre, German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Planning, Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing, Support & Training

Link
https://dwb.gfbio.org/

Support
Helpdesk

The DWB Virtual Training Environment instances at GWDG provide free remote access to Diversity Workbench (DWB) clients and SQL database software. The access is organized for single users by NFDI authentication with DWB authorization. The instances include test data from research projects and provide access to terminologies and taxonomies. Data exchange with external resources is possible. The parent instance at SNSB and the child instances at GWDG are regularly technically updated (SaaS). 

Provider
German Federation for Biological Data

Requirements
None

Area of application
Planning, Harmonizing, Accessing & Archiving, Discovering & Exploring, Processing & Visualizing, Support & Training

Link
www.gfbio.org

Support
Helpdesk

The GFBio Portal is a single point of access to data and associated services along the Research Data Lifecycle maintained by the German Federation for Biological Data in Bremen. Researchers can access data from out ten domain-oriented data centers as well as tried-and-tested tools and expert support from planning through managing, analysing, publishing and archiving data. The GFBio wiki and instructive materials from our roadshows provide know-how on all aspects of biological, ecological and environmental data.  

Our Helpdesk is our point of contact for all questions about research data management, the use of tools and services, as well as for enquiries about training and collaboration with NFDI4Biodiversity.

The helpdesk team will forward your request to the respective experts of the NFDI4Biodiversity and German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio) network.

Our partner institutions offer (partly regularly, partly on request) training on the use of their tools and services for working with biodiversity, ecology and environmental data.

Find more info on our Trainings pages.