Database of living organisms, taxonomic. The GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

Prefix

gbif

Keywords

biodiversity bioinformatics marine biology metagenomics natural history natural science taxonomy

Links

Homepage Repository @GBIF

Contact

Tim Robertson   0000-0001-6215-3617   timrobertson100

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Global Biodiversity Information Facility should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

4238   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Global Biodiversity Information Facility should match this regular expression:
^gbif:\d+$

Example CURIE

gbif:4238

Publications

2014 The GBIF integrated publishing toolkit: facilitating the efficient publishing of biodiversity data on the internet.

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for gbif with 3 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE gbif:4238 is used to demonstrate the provides available for gbif. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.