The GFBio Data Centers empower the GFBio services. Currently, ten Data Centers are infrastructure partners in the GFBio network, and support and handle the curation, archiving and publication of biodiversity related data. Seven Data Centers are located at natural history collections throughout Germany and three are Data Centers specialised in plant, nucleotide and environmental data. They are run by departments of science informatics and data infrastructure at recognized science institutions devoted to manage, store, archive and publish various types of bio- and geodiversity data. Data submitted through GFBio are transmitted to and curated by data curators at a matching GFBio Data Center, based on each center´s profile.
The group of GFBio Data Centers consists of
GFBio data centers have agreed on a number of consensus documents, tools, data pipelines and standards and technical formats for interoperability.
The seven Collection Data Centers within GFBio regularly deliver standardised species occurence data to the GFBio Data Portal. They also act as GBIF data publishers and most of them are part of the German GBIF node system. They support data producers in Germany with publishing data in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
Detailed profiles of the GFBio Data Centers, contact persons and documentations can be found in our Knowledge Base.