Projects and Initiatives related to BioCASE
- AVH The Australian Virtual Herbarium
- BioCISE A Biological Collection Information Service for Europe, Aug. 1997 - Dec. 1999
- BioGeomancer Worldwide collaboration of natural history and geospatial data experts
- DNA Bank Network The DNA Bank Network
- EDIT European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
- ENBI European Network for Biodiversity Information, Jan. 2003 - Dec. 2005
- ENHSIN, European Natural History Spcecimen Information Network, Jan. 2000 - March 2003
- GBIF The Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- GeoCASe The Geological Collection Access Service
- Bioversity International (formely IPGRI, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute)
- Lifewatch Lifewatch
- OpenUp!, Opening Up the Natural History Heritage for Europeana
- Species2000 europa (EuroCat, Feb. 2003 - Jan.. 2006)
- Species2000 Catalogue of Life Programme
- SYNTHESYS Synthesis of Systematic Resources
Standards
- ABCD, Task Group on Access to Biological Collection Data
- NCD, Natural Collections Description TDWG subgroup
- OGC, the Open Geospatial Consortium
- TDWG, International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases
- TDWG Biological Collection Links: Standards, Information Models, and Data Dictionaries for Biological Collections
- W3C World Wide Web Consortium: XML Schema, XQuery, XSLT
Other projects
- EuroBioBank European network of DNA, cell and tissue banks for rare diseases
- BioFresh Global information platform for freshwater biodiversity.
- Géant2, the next generation of the multi-gigabit pan-European research network
- Ravns, Resources Available in Natural Sciences
- Seek The Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge