Repository details
ZFMK Biodiversity Data Center
Name of repository
ZFMK Biodiversity Data Center
Additional name(s)
- ZFMK Datenzentrum
- ZFMK Natural History Collections - occurrence data
Subject(s)
Description
The ZFMK Biodiversity Data Center is aimed at hosting, archiving, publishing and distributing data from biodiversity research and zoological collections. The Biodiversity Data Center handles and curates data on:
- The specimens of the institutes collection, including provenance, distribution, habitat, and taxonomic data.
- Observations, recordings and measurements from field research, monitoring and ecological inventories.
- Morphological measurements, descriptions on specimens, as well as
- Genetic barcode libraries, and
- Genetic and molecular research data associated with specimens or environmental samples.
For this purpose, suitable software and hardware systems are operated and the required infrastructure is further developed.
Core components of the software architecture are:
The DiversityWorkbench suite for managing all collection-related information.
The Digital Asset Management system easyDB for multimedia assets.
The description database Morph·D·Base for morphological data sets and character matrices.
Contact(s)
- administrative: zfmkdatacenter@leibniz-zfmk.de
- administrative: p.grobe@leibniz-zfmk.de
- administrative: b.klasen@leibniz-zfmk.de
- administrative: b.quast@leibniz-zfmk.de
Keyword(s)
Repository size
more than 16 million collection objects
Repository type(s)
- institutional
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- English
- German
Data and/or service provider
- serviceProvider
Institutions (1)
Additional name(s)
- LIB
- formerly: Forschungs Museum König
- formerly: Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig
- formerly: ZFMK
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- general
Type of institution
non-profit
Policies (2)
Policy Name
Policy Name
Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Data access (2)
Type of access to data
open
Type of access to data
embargoed
Data licenses (1)
DataLicense
Data upload (2)
Type of data upload
open
Type of data upload
restricted
Persistent identifier system(s)
- DOI
Name of the repository software
- other
Versioning
yes
Quality management
yes
Application programming interfaces (1)
Metadata standards (1)
Metadata standard
Remarks
Entry date
2021-03-30
Last update
2025-10-13
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