In the 2012 President's Budget Request, the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is terminated. As a result, all resources, databases, tools, and applications within this web site will be removed on January 15, 2012. For more information, please refer to the NBII Program Termination page.
"A central annotated index of biodiversity collections from around the world. The Biodiversity Collections Index (BCI) is a community-driven, open-access project initiated by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) through a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) signed in December, 2007. The objective of the MoC is to develop infrastructure that can be used by the natural history and collections community worldwide, freely and openly, to contribute towards discovery, access and use of biodiversity collections."
NBII Catalog Query
- Returns results from a predefined search to retrieve all records for this topic from the NBII Web Resources Catalog
NBII Metadata Clearinghouse Search Results
- Returns Metadata, "data about data"
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Search the NBII Metadata Clearinghouse
- Search for metadata describing datasets and projects
Available at the upper right corner of your browser window on all NBII Web pages, the NBII Custom search will search all NBII program Web pages plus select high quality biological information resources on the Web.
Discover Data Simple Search
Select Data Providers:
(use ctrl - mouse click to select multiple providers)
The NBII Program is administered by the Biological Informatics Program of the U.S. Geological Survey
