A new feature has been added to RAMS, which allows a direct link to the Smithsonian Antarctic Invertebrates website. By clicking the link, the user is directed towards the corresponding page on the Antarctic Invertebrates website. see an example, here.
Call for the NPT advisory group
The Nodes Portal Toolkit (NPT) is envisioned as a suite of informatics tools for helping GBIF Participants to deploy, maintain and extend biodiversity data portals (at the national, regional or thematic level). 25.11.10 In October 2009 the GBIF Participant Node Managers Committee recommended that the Nodes Community be fully engaged in the development cycle … Continue reading Call for the NPT advisory group
New paper: How many species in the Antarctic?
The IPY sister-projects CAML and SCAR-MarBIN provided a timely opportunity, a strong collaborative framework and an appropriate momentum to attempt assessing the “Known, Unknown and Unknowable” of Antarctic marine biodiversity. To allow assessing the known biodiversity, SCAR-MarBIN “Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS)” was compiled and published by a panel of 64 taxonomic experts. … Continue reading New paper: How many species in the Antarctic?
Antarctic Field Guides released today
Today we are releasing a new project: Antarctic Field Guide http://afg.scarmarbin.be Create your field guide to the Antarctic! The aim of Antartic Field Guides is to help scientist and amateurs their preparation for a trip to the Antarctica. With AFG they can create a Field Guide with all the species they are interested in or around … Continue reading Antarctic Field Guides released today
ANTABIF team to coordinate GBIF’s NPT
The Nodes Portal Toolkit (NPT) is broadly defined as a suite of tools that will enable GBIF Participants to easily deploy biodiversity data portals at the national, regional or thematic level. It has been envisaged as a community-led project, involving active engagement from GBIF Participant Nodes, strategic partners, and other key stakeholders.
New dataset: Antarctic deep-sea meiofauna
These data give - for the first time - an overview of the meiofauna that inhabits the slope and the abyssal plains in Antarctic waters to a depth of 5 200 m.
First SERF metadata record available in GCMD
SCAR-MarBIN offers a direct access to the content of its database using OGC-compliant webservices (including WMS/WFS). A metadata record describing these services is available from the Global Change Master Directory SERF section. WMS and WFS allow you to dynamically connect to SCAR-MarBIN occurence database using various software clients (ArcView, Matlab, R...) bypassing the Web search … Continue reading First SERF metadata record available in GCMD
