Integration of Biodiversity Databases in Taiwan and Linkage to Global Databases

Data Science Journal

Kun-Chi Lai¹  Kwang-Tsao Shao¹  Han Lee¹  Jack Lin¹  Yang Alan²  Ming-Chih Wang¹  Eric Yen³  Shin-Yu Chen²  Ching-I Peng¹ 

[1] Research Center for Biodiversity, Academia Sinica, Taiwan;Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan;Computing Centre, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

关键词: Biodiversity;    Information Integration;    TaiBIF;    TaiBNET;    GBIF;   

DOI  :  10.2481/dsj.6.S2

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: Ubiquity Press Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

References(7)The biodiversity databases in Taiwan were dispersed to various institutions and colleges with limited amount of data by 2001. The Natural Resources and Ecology GIS Database sponsored by the Council of Agriculture, which is part of the National Geographic Information System planned by the Ministry of Interior, was the most well established biodiversity database in Taiwan. But thisThis database was, however, mainly collectingcollected the distribution data of terrestrial animals and plants within the Taiwan area. In 2001, GBIF was formed, and Taiwan joined as one of the an Associate Participant and started, starting the establishment and integration of animal and plant species databases; therefore, TaiBIF was able to co-operate with GBIF. The information of Catalog of Life, specimens, and alien species were integrated by the Darwin core. The standard. These metadata standards allowed the biodiversity information of Taiwan to connect with global databases.

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