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OBIS

OBIS allows users to search marine species datasets from all of the world's oceans. It allows to identify large-scale ecological patterns, analyze dispersions of species over time and space, and FP7-283644 iMarine Combination of CP & CSA plot species' locations with temperature, salinity, and depth. The OBIS schema is a list of data fields with names, descriptions, and format notes. It is an extension to the Darwin Core Version 2 standard. Darwin Core is a Biodiversity informatics data standard that consists of a vocabulary of terms to facilitate the discovery, retrieval, and integration of information about organisms, their spatiotemporal occurrence, and the supporting evidence housed in biological collections. The Darwin Core profile is expressed as an XML Schema document for use by the DiGIR (Distributed Generic Information Retrieval) protocol.

Darwin Core is based on the principles of Dublin Core and decouples the definition and semantics of individual terms from application of these terms in different technologies such as XML, RDF or simple CSV text files. It not only allows on sharing data through a dynamic DiGIR provider, but also offers RESTful, OAI and OGC services. It's going to be used to enrich the data sets accessible through the D4ScienceAn e-Infrastructure operated by the D4Science.org initiative. Ecosystem with biodiversity metadata and content from multiple research areas.