A network of primary biodiversity repositories
The Biological Collection Access Service (BioCASe) is a transnational network of primary biodiversity repositories. It links together specimen data from natural history collections, botanical/zoological gardens and research institutions worldwide with information from huge observation databases. The aim is to make the world's data on biodiversity data freely and universally accessible on the Internet through data portals and web services, a goal that BioCASe shares with related initiatives such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio). In the past years, BioCASe has developed into a widely accepted standard for data sharing and has laid the foundations for several thematically - both taxonomically and geographically - specialized networks (see box to the right). Read more
The BioCASe secretariat is based at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin and will be happy to answer any questions regarding BioCASe.
BioCASe is the GBIF Participant Node for the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities.
