Repository details

Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Name of repository
Ocean Biodiversity Information System
Additional name(s)
  • OBIS
  • formerly: Ocean Biogeographic Information System
Repository URL
https://obis.org/
Subject(s)
Description
OBIS strives to document the ocean's diversity, distribution and abundance of life. Created by the Census of Marine Life, OBIS is now part of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, under its International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme
Contact(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository size
5.351 datasets; 193.652 accepted species; 173.469.576 measurements and facts; 132.062.936 presence records
Repository type(s)
  • institutional
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://obis.org/about/
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider
  • serviceProvider

Institutions (3)

Institution
Census of Marine Life
Additional name(s)
  • CoML
Country
International
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1997
End date of responsibility
2008
Institution
Rutgers State University of New Jersey, School of Environmental and biological Sciences, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Additional name(s)
  • Rutgers University, SEBS, DMCS
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1998
End date of responsibility
2009
Institution
UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange
Additional name(s)
  • IODE
  • IOC
Institution
Country
International
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • funding
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2009

Policies (3)

Policy Name
Data Policy
Policy Name
Data access
Policy Name
Guidelines on the sharing and use of data in OBIS

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
CC
DataLicense
CC0

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
Contribute data to OBIS
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • other
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
https://manual.obis.org/policy.html
Enhanced Publication
yes
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (1)

Type
other
Url
https://api.obis.org/

Metadata standards (4)

Metadata standard
Darwin Core
Metadata standard
EML (Ecological Metadata Language)
Metadata standard
FGDC/CSDGM (Federal Geographic Data Committee Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata)
Metadata standard
ISO 19115

Remarks

Remarks
OBIS strives to document the ocean's diversity, distribution and abundance of life. Created by the Census of Marine Life, OBIS is now part of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, under its International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme. Partnerships: https://obis.org/partnerships/ Become a partner of OBIS : https://obis.org/about/sponsor/
Entry date
2012-10-01
Last update
2024-09-27
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re3data.org: Ocean Biodiversity Information System; editing status 2024-09-27; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R33K5G last accessed: 2025-04-18