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This table provides acronymns, abbreviations, research and collections tools, terms, and organizations and projects useful to the iDigBio community for research, data management, education and other primary biodiversity data uses. <br>
This table provides acronymns, abbreviations, research and collections tools, terms, and organizations and projects useful to the iDigBio community for research, data management, education and other primary biodiversity data uses.  
Tags can be used to sort the different categories found in this table. Updated May 2016.
Tags can be used to sort the different categories found in this table. Updated June 2016.
Click [https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php?title=Glossary_of_Terms&printable=yes here] for a landscape-printable version.


 
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! scope="col" width="15%" |Long Name  
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|valign="top"|http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/<br>  
|valign="top"|http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/<br>  
|valign="top"|An integrated and permanent resource for biological occurrence data from the United States. Product of the U.S. Geological Survey's Biological Informatics Program. BISON allows users to explore and analyze U.S. species occurrence data from participating data providers.
|valign="top"|An integrated and permanent resource for biological occurrence data from the United States. Product of the U.S. Geological Survey's Biological Informatics Program. BISON allows users to explore and analyze U.S. species occurrence data from participating data providers.
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|valign="top"|BITC
|valign="top"|Biodiversity Informatice Training Curriculum
|valign="top"|education
|valign="top"|http://biodiversity-informatics-training.org/
|valign="top"|The primary goal of this site is to consolidate information and resources relating to biodiversity informatics – ultimately developing into a global, online training ‘curriculum’ for biodiversity informatics.
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|valign="top"|BOLDSystems
|valign="top"|BOLDSystems
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|valign="top"|http://www.boldsystems.org/<br>  
|valign="top"|http://www.boldsystems.org/<br>  
|valign="top"|The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) is a web platform that provides an integrated environment for the assembly and use of DNA barcode data. It delivers an online database for the collection and management of specimen, distributional, and molecular data as well as analytical tools to support their validation.
|valign="top"|The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) is a web platform that provides an integrated environment for the assembly and use of DNA barcode data. It delivers an online database for the collection and management of specimen, distributional, and molecular data as well as analytical tools to support their validation.
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|valign="top"|BONAP<br>
|valign="top"|The Biota of North America Program, North American Vascular Flora
|valign="top"|organization, data repository
|valign="top"|http://www.bonap.org/<br>
|valign="top"|Taxonomic Data Center and North American Plant Atlas.
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|valign="top"|BSA<br>
|valign="top"|BSA<br>
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|valign="top"|No website found<br> http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639214
|valign="top"|No website found<br> http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639214
|valign="top"|CollectionsWeb was formerly an outreach of The Research Coordination Network (RCN) for Building a National Community of Natural History Collections, which started as a way to build communication among people at natural history collections, researchers using those collections, other programs dealing with issues important to collections, and other stakeholders. The goal of this project is to build community among natural history collections and for CollectionsWeb to serve as an online hub for collections-based activities. It provides links to sites with specimen data, but does not deliver data, itself. DBI-0639214
|valign="top"|CollectionsWeb was formerly an outreach of The Research Coordination Network (RCN) for Building a National Community of Natural History Collections, which started as a way to build communication among people at natural history collections, researchers using those collections, other programs dealing with issues important to collections, and other stakeholders. The goal of this project is to build community among natural history collections and for CollectionsWeb to serve as an online hub for collections-based activities. It provides links to sites with specimen data, but does not deliver data, itself. DBI-0639214
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|valign="top"|Colorbrewer 2.0<br>
|valign="top"|Colorbrewer 2.0: color advice for cartography
|valign="top"|visualization
|valign="top"|http://colorbrewer2.org/
|valign="top"|Diagnostic tool for evaluating the robustness of individual color schemes in mapping.
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|valign="top"|CombineZ
|valign="top"|CombineZ
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|valign="top"|cloud computing, data repository, research tools
|valign="top"|cloud computing, data repository, research tools
|valign="top"|http://www.cyverse.org/
|valign="top"|http://www.cyverse.org/
|valign="top"|Formerly iPlant
|valign="top"|Formerly iPlant. A community of researchers, educators, and students working to enrich all biological sciences through the development of cyberinfrastructure - the physical computing resources, collaborative environment, virtual machine resources, and interoperable analysis software and data services that are essential components of modern biology.
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|valign="top"|DAMS
|valign="top"|DAMS
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|valign="top"|http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/collections/databases/
|valign="top"|http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/collections/databases/
|valign="top"|Public interface for biodiversity (collections, etc.), including web mapping application, for Florida. Initial proof of concept for FLMNH Biodiversity Institute, but no existing funding.  
|valign="top"|Public interface for biodiversity (collections, etc.), including web mapping application, for Florida. Initial proof of concept for FLMNH Biodiversity Institute, but no existing funding.  
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|valign="top"|Digitarium<br>
|valign="top"|Digitarium
|valign="top"|digitization
|valign="top"|http://digitarium.fi/en
|valign="top"|High performance digitization of insects and herbarium specimens.
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|valign="top"|DINA
|valign="top"|DINA
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|valign="top"|http://ezid.cdlib.org/
|valign="top"|http://ezid.cdlib.org/
|valign="top"|Long-term identifiers made easy. EZID (easy-eye-dee) makes it easy to create & manage unique, long-term identifiers.
|valign="top"|Long-term identifiers made easy. EZID (easy-eye-dee) makes it easy to create & manage unique, long-term identifiers.
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|valign="top"|Falling rain<br>
|valign="top"|Falling Rain Global Gazetteer Version 2.3
|valign="top"|gazetteer
|valign="top"|http://www.fallingrain.com/world/index.html<br>
|valign="top"|Global Gazetteer of cities and towns, with browse functionality.
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|valign="top"|Fauna Europaea<br>
|valign="top"|Fauna Europaea<br>
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|valign="top"|Fishbase
|valign="top"|Fishbase
|valign="top"|FishNet2 Collaborative Georeferencing
|valign="top"|Fishbase: A Global Information System on Fishes
|valign="top"|data aggregator, nomenclature, taxonomy
|valign="top"|data aggregator, nomenclature, taxonomy
|valign="top"|http://www.fishbase.org/
|valign="top"|http://www.fishbase.org/
|valign="top"|FishNet 2 is a collaborative effort by natural history museums and other biodiversity institutions to establish a global network of Ichthyology collections. There is an open invitation for any institution with a fish collection to join. The current portal is an outgrowth of the original FishNet project with improvements in network stability, georeferencing capabilities, and technical support. Users are provided access to searchable, mappable, and downloadable data that are cached on a regular basis from participating institutions who have published their data via the DiGIR or TAPIR protocols with a Darwin Core schema.
|valign="top"|Welcome to the world of fishes! FishBase is a global biodiversity information system on finfishes. Its initial goal to provide key facts on population dynamics for 200 major commercial species has now grown to having a wide range of information on all species currently known in the world: taxonomy, biology, trophic ecology, life history, and uses, as well as historical data reaching back to 250 years.  
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|valign="top"|FishNet2
|valign="top"|FishNet2
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|valign="top"|http://www.geotagphotos.net/
|valign="top"|http://www.geotagphotos.net/
|valign="top"|Add GPS capabilities to your mobile device for the fraction of the cost of a dedicated GPS logger. consists of a mobile app (for iOS or Android) that records your position while you’re taking great photos and a desktop app that geotags your images using recorded data. All your recorded routes can then be exported as a GPX file via Dropbox, email, or the web.
|valign="top"|Add GPS capabilities to your mobile device for the fraction of the cost of a dedicated GPS logger. consists of a mobile app (for iOS or Android) that records your position while you’re taking great photos and a desktop app that geotags your images using recorded data. All your recorded routes can then be exported as a GPX file via Dropbox, email, or the web.
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|valign="top"|Thesaurus of Geographic Names
|valign="top"|Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
|valign="top"|gazetteer
|valign="top"|http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/
|valign="top"|Useful for alternative/synonyms for old place names.
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|valign="top"|GitHub
|valign="top"|GitHub
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|valign="top"|GeoTools is an open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data.
|valign="top"|GeoTools is an open source Java library that provides tools for geospatial data.
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|valign="top"|GLI<br>Great Lakes Invasives TCN
|valign="top"|GLI
|valign="top"|Documenting the Occurrence through Space and Time of Aquatic Non-indigenous Fish, Mollusks, Algae, and Plants Threatening North America's Great Lakes
|valign="top"|Great Lakes Invasives TCN
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|http://herbarium.wisc.edu/GreatLakes.htm<br>http://greatlakesinvasives.org/<br>[[Documenting the Occurrence through Space and Time of Aquatic Non-indigenous Fish, Mollusks, Algae, and Plants Threatening North America's Great Lakes|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|http://herbarium.wisc.edu/GreatLakes.htm<br>http://greatlakesinvasives.org/<br>[[Documenting the Occurrence through Space and Time of Aquatic Non-indigenous Fish, Mollusks, Algae, and Plants Threatening North America's Great Lakes|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|This project will create a network of herbaria and zoology museums from among the Great Lakes states of MN, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH, and NY to better document the occurrence of exotic species in space and time by imaging and providing online access to the information on the specimens of the critical organisms.
|valign="top"|Documenting the Occurrence through Space and Time of Aquatic Non-indigenous Fish, Mollusks, Algae, and Plants Threatening North America's Great Lakes. This project will create a network of herbaria and zoology museums from among the Great Lakes states of MN, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH, and NY to better document the occurrence of exotic species in space and time by imaging and providing online access to the information on the specimens of the critical organisms.
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|valign="top"|GigaPan<br>CaptureStudio<br>
|valign="top"|GigaPan<br>CaptureStudio<br>
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|valign="top"|No website found  
|valign="top"|No website found  
|valign="top"|This project offers proof of concept and an initial implementation of 'one-button' specimen imaging and data capture by which clicking the shutter on a digital camera would initiate a sequence that culminates with the population of label data and a specimen image into a structured collection database. The ultimate goal is to reduce the total cost of digital collection data capture by significantly reducing human labor required and total project duration. Significant gains can be achieved by developing appropriate protocols and methodologies, then packaging them as web services. Much of this can be accomplished by applying existing technology to data acquisition bottlenecks.
|valign="top"|This project offers proof of concept and an initial implementation of 'one-button' specimen imaging and data capture by which clicking the shutter on a digital camera would initiate a sequence that culminates with the population of label data and a specimen image into a structured collection database. The ultimate goal is to reduce the total cost of digital collection data capture by significantly reducing human labor required and total project duration. Significant gains can be achieved by developing appropriate protocols and methodologies, then packaging them as web services. Much of this can be accomplished by applying existing technology to data acquisition bottlenecks.
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|valign="top"|HerpNET
|valign="top"|Herpetological Network
|valign="top"|data aggregator
|valign="top"|http://www.herpnet.org/
|valign="top"|HerpNET is a collaborative effort by natural history museums to establish a global network of herpetological collections data, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF No. 0132303) and a GBIF DIGIT grant. Sixty-four institutions participated in the HerpNET community (43 in the original NSF grant). The VertNet data portal replaced the HerpNET portal in January 2015.
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|valign="top"|HerpNET
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|valign="top"|https://www.idigbio.org/  
|valign="top"|https://www.idigbio.org/  
|valign="top"|The project funded by the NSF to develop an integrated national infrastructure for digitization of existing biodiversity collections in the U.S. iDigBio is also known as the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC).
|valign="top"|The project funded by the NSF to develop an integrated national infrastructure for digitization of existing biodiversity collections in the U.S. iDigBio is also known as the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC).
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|valign="top"|IDQ
|valign="top"|iDigQuality
|valign="top"|software
|valign="top"|https://github.com/iDigBio/idq
|valign="top"|iDigBio's data quality standard library.
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|valign="top"|ISBER<br>
|valign="top"|International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories<br>
|valign="top"|organization
|valign="top"|https://isber.site-ym.com/
|valign="top"|ISBER is a global organization which creates opportunities for sharing ideas and innovations in biobanking and harmonizes approaches to evolving challenges for biological and environmental repositories.
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|valign="top"|IGSN<br>
|valign="top"|IGSN<br>
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|valign="top"|InvertEBase: Reaching Back to See the Future: Species-rich Invertebrate Faunas Document Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Shifts
|valign="top"|InvertEBase: Reaching Back to See the Future: Species-rich Invertebrate Faunas Document Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Shifts
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN  
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN  
|valign="top"|http://www.invertebase.org/<br>[[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/InvertEBase:_Reaching_Back_to_See_the_Future:_Species-rich_Invertebrate_Faunas_Document_Causes_and_Consequences_of_Biodiversity_Shifts|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|http://www.invertebase.org/<br>[[InvertEBase:_Reaching_Back_to_See_the_Future:_Species-rich_Invertebrate_Faunas_Document_Causes_and_Consequences_of_Biodiversity_Shifts|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|The TCN "InvertEBase" is a 4-year collaborative effort to digitize specimen records from ten arthropod and mollusk collections housed at six major US museums in six states, three of them ranking among the top 10 collections in the world.
|valign="top"|The TCN "InvertEBase" is a 4-year collaborative effort to digitize specimen records from ten arthropod and mollusk collections housed at six major US museums in six states, three of them ranking among the top 10 collections in the world.
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|valign="top"|cloud computing, data management
|valign="top"|cloud computing, data management
|valign="top"|http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/  
|valign="top"|http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/  
|valign="top"|Now CyVerse. iPlant is a community of researchers, educators, and students working to enrich all plant sciences through the development of cyberinfrastructure - the physical computing resources, collaborative environment, virtual machine resources, and interoperable analysis software and data services that are essential components of modern biology.
|valign="top"|See CyVerse.  
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|valign="top"|IPNI
|valign="top"|IPNI
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|valign="top"|North American Lichens and Bryophytes - Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change
|valign="top"|North American Lichens and Bryophytes - Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|http://lichenportal.org/portal/<br>http://bryophyteportal.org/portal/<br>[[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/North_American_Lichens_and_Bryophytes_-_Sensitive_Indicators_of_Environmental_Quality_and_Change|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|http://lichenportal.org/portal/<br>http://bryophyteportal.org/portal/<br>[[North_American_Lichens_and_Bryophytes_-_Sensitive_Indicators_of_Environmental_Quality_and_Change|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|This project will image about 2.3 million North American lichen and bryophyte specimens from more than 60 collections to address questions of how species distributions change after major environmental events, both in the past and projected into the future.  
|valign="top"|This project will image about 2.3 million North American lichen and bryophyte specimens from more than 60 collections to address questions of how species distributions change after major environmental events, both in the past and projected into the future.  
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|valign="top"|LepNet<br>
|valign="top"|Lepidoptera of North America Network
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|[[Lepidoptera_of_North_America_Network]]
|valign="top"|Digitization TCN: Lepidoptera of North America Network: Documenting Diversity in the Largest Clade of Herbivores
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|valign="top"|LibXML<br>
|valign="top"|LibXML<br>
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|valign="top"|http://xmlsoft.org/<br>  
|valign="top"|http://xmlsoft.org/<br>  
|valign="top"|XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project.
|valign="top"|XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project.
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|valign="top"|Libraries of Life
|valign="top"|Libraries of Life: More to specimens than meets the eye
|valign="top"|software, education
|valign="top"|http://www.libraries-of-life.org/
|valign="top"|Augmented reality specimen cards serve as an exciting, new education and outreach tool that aim to promote engagement and accessibility to biodiversity specimens, which largely remain hidden from public view in U.S. museums, universities, field stations, and other institutions.  The Libraries of Life team is a collaboration between the U.S. National Science Foundation's National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (iDigBio) and a growing number of Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs).
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|valign="top"|LifeDesks<br>
|valign="top"|LifeDesks<br>
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|valign="top"|LifeWatch
|valign="top"|LifeWatch
|valign="top"|LifeWatch
|valign="top"|ESFRI Landmark LifeWatch
|valign="top"|data aggregator, data management, visualization
|valign="top"|data aggregator, data management, visualization
|valign="top"|http://www.servicecentrelifewatch.eu/
|valign="top"|http://www.servicecentrelifewatch.eu/
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|valign="top"|The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity Resource for Understanding Biotic Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human Affairs
|valign="top"|The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity Resource for Understanding Biotic Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human Affairs
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN  
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN  
|valign="top"|http://mycoportal.org/portal/index.php<br>[[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/The_Macrofungi_Collection_Consortium|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|http://mycoportal.org/portal/index.php<br>[[The_Macrofungi_Collection_Consortium|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|Scientists in the U.S. have been studying these fungi for the past 150 years, resulting in a legacy of approximately 1.4 million dried scientific specimens conserved in 35 institutions in 24 states. These institutions have now joined in an effort to digitize and share online all data associated with macrofungi specimens. The resulting resource will enable a national census of macrofungi, never before attempted, and will allow researchers to better understand the diversity of these organisms and the relationship between macrofungi and the organisms with which they form intimate relationships.
|valign="top"|Scientists in the U.S. have been studying these fungi for the past 150 years, resulting in a legacy of approximately 1.4 million dried scientific specimens conserved in 35 institutions in 24 states. These institutions have now joined in an effort to digitize and share online all data associated with macrofungi specimens. The resulting resource will enable a national census of macrofungi, never before attempted, and will allow researchers to better understand the diversity of these organisms and the relationship between macrofungi and the organisms with which they form intimate relationships.
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|valign="top"|http://www.mississippiplants.org/
|valign="top"|http://www.mississippiplants.org/
|valign="top"|Project Magnolia grandiFLORA is an effort to digitize herbaria throughout Mississippi and to provide scientific and educational resources to the citizens of Mississippi and researchers around the world.  
|valign="top"|Project Magnolia grandiFLORA is an effort to digitize herbaria throughout Mississippi and to provide scientific and educational resources to the citizens of Mississippi and researchers around the world.  
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|valign="top"|MaM
|valign="top"|The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis
|valign="top"|TCN
|valign="top"|[[The_Mid-Atlantic_Megalopolis]]
|valign="top"|Digitization TCN: The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: Achieving a greater scientific understanding of our urban world
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|valign="top"|MaNIS
|valign="top"|MaNIS
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|valign="top"|https://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/hadoop/mapreduce/  
|valign="top"|https://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/hadoop/mapreduce/  
|valign="top"|Hadoop MapReduce is a programming model and software framework for writing applications that rapidly process vast amounts of data in parallel on large clusters of compute nodes.  
|valign="top"|Hadoop MapReduce is a programming model and software framework for writing applications that rapidly process vast amounts of data in parallel on large clusters of compute nodes.  
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|valign="top"|MapsData
|valign="top"|MapsData
|valign="top"|data management, visualization
|valign="top"|http://www.mapsdata.co.uk/online-file-converter/
|valign="top"|Mapsdata lets you visualize data on a map and share it with others in one easy step.  You can map your customers, map economic data, map environmental data, or anything that has latitude, longitude, a coordinate, ZIP code or postcode. Provides an online converter, converting files to KML, or batch conversion of postcodes, UTM and other co-ordinate formats.
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|valign="top"|MBB<br>
|valign="top"|MBB<br>
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|valign="top"|nomenclature, taxonomy
|valign="top"|nomenclature, taxonomy
|valign="top"|http://rameau.snv.jussieu.fr/cgi-bin/coleorrhyncha.pl
|valign="top"|http://rameau.snv.jussieu.fr/cgi-bin/coleorrhyncha.pl
|The MBB – Moss Bug Base is a taxonomic database of extant and fossil taxa of Coleorrhyncha. It contains information on taxonomy (accepted names and synonyms), nomenclature, bibliography and distribution as basis for further studies on these insects. It is intended to add information on host relationships for extant taxa and on stratigraphy for fossil taxa in future releases.
|valign="top"|The MBB – Moss Bug Base is a taxonomic database of extant and fossil taxa of Coleorrhyncha. It contains information on taxonomy (accepted names and synonyms), nomenclature, bibliography and distribution as basis for further studies on these insects. It is intended to add information on host relationships for extant taxa and on stratigraphy for fossil taxa in future releases.
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|valign="top"|Mendeley<br>
|valign="top"|Mendeley<br>
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|valign="top"|institution
|valign="top"|institution
|valign="top"|http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/<br>  
|valign="top"|http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/<br>  
|valign="top"|Oldest botanical garden in continuous operation and a National Historic Landmark.  
|valign="top"|Oldest botanical garden in continuous operation and a National Historic Landmark. Home to Tropicos.
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|valign="top"|ModestR<br>
|valign="top"|ModestR
|valign="top"|software, visualization
|valign="top"|http://www.ipez.es/ModestR/<br>
|valign="top"|ModestR is a software tool aimed to provide academic community (particularly people involved in Ecology and biodiversity management) with a powerful but easy-to-use tool for working with species distribution maps and taxonomic data.
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|valign="top"|MOL<br>
|valign="top"|MOL<br>
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|valign="top"|http://morphobank.org/
|valign="top"|http://morphobank.org/
|valign="top"|MorphoBank is a web application providing an online database and workspace for evolutionary research, specifically systematics (the science of determining the evolutionary relationships among species). One can think of MorphoBank as two databases in one: one that permits researchers to upload images and affiliate data with those images (labels, species names, etc.) and a second database that allows researchers to upload morphological data and affiliate it with phylogenetic matrices. In both cases, MorphoBank is project-based, meaning a team of researchers can create a project and share the images and associated data exclusively with each other. When a paper associated with the project is published, the research team can make their data permanently available for view on MorphoBank where it is now archived.
|valign="top"|MorphoBank is a web application providing an online database and workspace for evolutionary research, specifically systematics (the science of determining the evolutionary relationships among species). One can think of MorphoBank as two databases in one: one that permits researchers to upload images and affiliate data with those images (labels, species names, etc.) and a second database that allows researchers to upload morphological data and affiliate it with phylogenetic matrices. In both cases, MorphoBank is project-based, meaning a team of researchers can create a project and share the images and associated data exclusively with each other. When a paper associated with the project is published, the research team can make their data permanently available for view on MorphoBank where it is now archived.
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|valign="top"|MorphoSource
|valign="top"|MorphoSourc
|valign="top"|data aggregator
|valign="top"|http://morphosource.org/
|valign="top"|MorphoSource is a project-based data archive that allows researchers to store and organize, share, and distribute their own 3D data. Furthermore any registered user can immediately search for and download 3D morphological data sets that have been made accessible through the consent of data authors.
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|valign="top"|Morphster<br>
|valign="top"|Morphster<br>
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|valign="top"|The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium: Accessing 150 Years of Specimen Data to Understand Changes in the Marine/Aquatic Environment
|valign="top"|The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium: Accessing 150 Years of Specimen Data to Understand Changes in the Marine/Aquatic Environment
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|http://macroalgae.org<br>[[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/The_Macroalgal_Herbarium_Consortium:_Accessing_150_Years_of_Specimen_Data_to_Understand_Changes_in_the_Marine/Aquatic_Environment|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|http://macroalgae.org<br>[[The_Macroalgal_Herbarium_Consortium:_Accessing_150_Years_of_Specimen_Data_to_Understand_Changes_in_the_Marine/Aquatic_Environment|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|Macroalgae are the foundation of marine, estuarine and freshwater benthic ecosystems providing food, substrata and protection for a myriad of other aquatic organisms. Many macroalgal species are sensitive to environmental change. The data provided through the portal will allow researchers and the public at large determine how macroalgal biodiversity and our aquatic ecosystems have changed over the past 150 years as a result of climate change, bioinvasions, and a wide range of human activity.
|valign="top"|Macroalgae are the foundation of marine, estuarine and freshwater benthic ecosystems providing food, substrata and protection for a myriad of other aquatic organisms. Many macroalgal species are sensitive to environmental change. The data provided through the portal will allow researchers and the public at large determine how macroalgal biodiversity and our aquatic ecosystems have changed over the past 150 years as a result of climate change, bioinvasions, and a wide range of human activity.
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|valign="top"|Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Specimen Data to Track Environmental Change  
|valign="top"|Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Specimen Data to Track Environmental Change  
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|http://nevp.org/,br.[[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Mobilizing_New_England_Vascular_Plant_Specimen_Data|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|http://nevp.org/,br.[[Mobilizing_New_England_Vascular_Plant_Specimen_Data|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|NEVP will provide data to support studies of the nature and consequences of environmental change in the New England region over the last three centuries. This project will digitally capture specimen data and images from about 1.3 million vascular plant specimens housed in 15 large to small herbaria located across the region and then share online the resulting images and data.  
|valign="top"|NEVP will provide data to support studies of the nature and consequences of environmental change in the New England region over the last three centuries. This project will digitally capture specimen data and images from about 1.3 million vascular plant specimens housed in 15 large to small herbaria located across the region and then share online the resulting images and data.  
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|valign="top"|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity
|valign="top"|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Database_Connectivity
|valign="top"|ODBC is a standard C interface for accessing database management systems (DBMS). The designers of ODBC aimed to make it independent of database systems and operating systems. An application can use ODBC to query data from a DBMS, regardless of the operating system or DBMS it uses. ODBC accomplishes DBMS independence by using an ODBC driver as a translation layer between the application and the DBMS. The application uses ODBC functions, and the driver passes the query to the DBMS.  
|valign="top"|ODBC is a standard C interface for accessing database management systems (DBMS). The designers of ODBC aimed to make it independent of database systems and operating systems. An application can use ODBC to query data from a DBMS, regardless of the operating system or DBMS it uses. ODBC accomplishes DBMS independence by using an ODBC driver as a translation layer between the application and the DBMS. The application uses ODBC functions, and the driver passes the query to the DBMS.  
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|valign="top"|OA<br>Open Annotation
|valign="top"|Open Annotation Data Model
|valign="top"|data management, standard
|valign="top"|http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/
|valign="top"|The Open Annotation Core Data Model specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources, annotations, using a methodology that conforms to the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Open Annotations can easily be shared between platforms, with sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex requirements while remaining simple enough to also allow for the most common use cases, such as attaching a piece of text to a single web resource.
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|valign="top"|Open Atrium<br>Atrium
|valign="top"|Open Atrium<br>Atrium
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|valign="top"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language
|valign="top"|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language
|valign="top"|The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies.
|valign="top"|The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies.
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|valign="top"|PaleoCore<br>
|valign="top"|PaleoCore: Towards a Data Standard for Paleoanthropology
|valign="top"|data aggregator, standards
|valign="top"|http://paleocore.org/
|valign="top"|PaleoCore is an initiative to develop data standards and digital infrastructure for paleoanthropology. PaleoCore addresses the common scientific challenge of merging results from independent research programs.
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|valign="top"|PaleoDb<br>
|valign="top"|PaleoDb<br>
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|valign="top"|Digitizing Fossils to Enable New Syntheses in Biogeography - Creating a PALEONICHES<br>  
|valign="top"|Digitizing Fossils to Enable New Syntheses in Biogeography - Creating a PALEONICHES<br>  
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|http://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/<br>[[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Creating_A_PALEONICHES|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|http://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/<br>[[Creating_A_PALEONICHES|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|The Paleoniches project will digitize nearly 450,000 specimens belonging to 900 species from several museums throughout the U.S. and will focus on three different time periods in the history of life: the Ordovician, Pennsylvanian, and Neogene. We will create on line digital atlases illustrating and describing these fossils and providing maps showing where they can be found and an 'app' so these atlases can be used on handheld devices out in the field.  
|valign="top"|The Paleoniches project will digitize nearly 450,000 specimens belonging to 900 species from several museums throughout the U.S. and will focus on three different time periods in the history of life: the Ordovician, Pennsylvanian, and Neogene. We will create on line digital atlases illustrating and describing these fossils and providing maps showing where they can be found and an 'app' so these atlases can be used on handheld devices out in the field.  
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|valign="top"|http://www.paleoportal.org/  
|valign="top"|http://www.paleoportal.org/  
|valign="top"|This site is a resource for anyone interested in paleontology, from the professional in the lab to the interested amateur scouting for fossils to the student in any classroom. Many resources are gathered into this single entry "portal" to paleontological information on the Internet.  
|valign="top"|This site is a resource for anyone interested in paleontology, from the professional in the lab to the interested amateur scouting for fossils to the student in any classroom. Many resources are gathered into this single entry "portal" to paleontological information on the Internet.  
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|valign="top"|PEN
|valign="top"|Partner to Existing Network
|valign="top"|ADBC, TCN
|valign="top"|https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15576/nsf15576.htm/
|valign="top"|Proposals to partner with and further the efforts of ongoing NSF-funded TCNs. The new partners must increase the number of specimens digitized in the ongoing project and fill gaps not addressed by the specimens in the existing TCN.
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|valign="top"|Pensoft
|valign="top"|Pensoft
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|valign="top"|http://phylolink.ala.org.au/
|valign="top"|http://phylolink.ala.org.au/
|valign="top"|Phylolink is a collection of tools through which biodiversity can be explored from a phylogenetic (or tree of life) perspective. At the core of these tools is the ability to easily intersect a phylogenetic tree with species occurrence records, environmental data, and species character information. The result is powerful ways of combining data to generate flexible and customisable visualisations, profiles and metrics for biodiversity. Phylolink builds upon PhyloJIVE, which was developed by CSIRO, the Taxonomy Research and Information Network (TRIN), and the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR).
|valign="top"|Phylolink is a collection of tools through which biodiversity can be explored from a phylogenetic (or tree of life) perspective. At the core of these tools is the ability to easily intersect a phylogenetic tree with species occurrence records, environmental data, and species character information. The result is powerful ways of combining data to generate flexible and customisable visualisations, profiles and metrics for biodiversity. Phylolink builds upon PhyloJIVE, which was developed by CSIRO, the Taxonomy Research and Information Network (TRIN), and the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR).
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|valign="top"|Picturae
|valign="top"|Picturae
|valign="top"|digitization
|valign="top"|https://picturae.com/uk/
|valign="top"|Mass digitization of herbarium sheets, negatives, 2D sheets etc.
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|valign="top"|Planting Science<br>
|valign="top"|Planting Science<br>
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|valign="top"|SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections<br>The Key to the Cabinets: Building and Sustaining a Research Database for a Global Biodiversity Hotspot
|valign="top"|SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections<br>The Key to the Cabinets: Building and Sustaining a Research Database for a Global Biodiversity Hotspot
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|http://sernec.appstate.edu/<br>[[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/The_Key_to_the_Cabinets:_Building_and_Sustaining_a_Research_Database_for_a_Global_Biodiversity_Hotspot|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|http://sernec.appstate.edu/<br>[[The_Key_to_the_Cabinets:_Building_and_Sustaining_a_Research_Database_for_a_Global_Biodiversity_Hotspot|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|The current project will allow the SERNEC group to make data available for over 3 million specimens using the latest photography and information capture tools and to engage citizen scientists and students to assist in transcribing and georeferencing this large dataset. The research generated through this project can help regional planners, land managers and communities to manage their natural resources in our ever-changing environment.
|valign="top"|The current project will allow the SERNEC group to make data available for over 3 million specimens using the latest photography and information capture tools and to engage citizen scientists and students to assist in transcribing and georeferencing this large dataset. The research generated through this project can help regional planners, land managers and communities to manage their natural resources in our ever-changing environment.
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|valign="top"|http://www.sibcolombia.net/web/sib/home
|valign="top"|http://www.sibcolombia.net/web/sib/home
|valign="top"|The SIB is a country initiative which aims to provide free access to information on biological diversity in Colombia for building a sustainable society.
|valign="top"|The SIB is a country initiative which aims to provide free access to information on biological diversity in Colombia for building a sustainable society.
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|valign="top"|SilverCollection
|valign="top"|SilverCollection
|valign="top"|data management, software
|valign="top"|http://www.silverbiology.com/products/silvercollection/
|valign="top"|SilverCollection is an interactive web portal for herbaria and other biological collections. It is a cliet-specific customized application for online access to specimen data and images.
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|valign="top"|SilverLining<br>
|valign="top"|SilverLining<br>
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|valign="top"|http://www.torcherbaria.org/
|valign="top"|http://www.torcherbaria.org/
|valign="top"|The Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria was developed to advocate for and to organize herbaria in Texas and Oklahoma.
|valign="top"|The Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria was developed to advocate for and to organize herbaria in Texas and Oklahoma.
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|valign="top"|tranScriptorium
|valign="top"|tranScriptorium
|valign="top"|transcription
|valign="top"|http://transcriptorium.eu/
|valign="top"|tranScriptori
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|valign="top"|Transkribus
|valign="top"|Transkribus
|valign="top"|software, transcription
|valign="top"|https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/
|valign="top"|Transkribus is a comprehensive Transcription and Recognition Platform (TRP) consisting of an expert tool (Transkribus), a webinterface (http://transkribus.eu/) and several cloud services. The main objective of Transkribus is to support users who are engaged in the transcription of printed or handwritten documents, namely humanities scholars, archives, volunteers - and computer scientists.
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|valign="top"|TreeBASE<br>
|valign="top"|TreeBASE<br>
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|valign="top"|Tri-Trophic Databasing<br>Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids: A Model System for the Study of Tri-trophic Associations
|valign="top"|Tri-Trophic Databasing<br>Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids: A Model System for the Study of Tri-trophic Associations
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|http://tcn.amnh.org/<br>[[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Plants,_Herbivores,_and_Parasitoids:_A_Model_System_for_the_Study_of_Tri-trophic_Associations|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|http://tcn.amnh.org/<br>[[Plants,_Herbivores,_and_Parasitoids:_A_Model_System_for_the_Study_of_Tri-trophic_Associations|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|This Thematic Collection Network (TCN) focused on one of the major herbivorous insect clades, the Hemiptera (aphids, scales, hoppers, cicadas, and true bugs), their host plants, and their parasitoids in a Tri-Trophic Databasing and imaging project.  
|valign="top"|This Thematic Collection Network (TCN) focused on one of the major herbivorous insect clades, the Hemiptera (aphids, scales, hoppers, cicadas, and true bugs), their host plants, and their parasitoids in a Tri-Trophic Databasing and imaging project.  
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|valign="top"|Developing a Centralized Digital Archive of Vouchered Animal Communication Signals
|valign="top"|Developing a Centralized Digital Archive of Vouchered Animal Communication Signals
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN
|valign="top"|[[https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Developing_a_Centralized_Digital_Archive_of_Vouchered_Animal_Communication_Signals|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|[[Developing_a_Centralized_Digital_Archive_of_Vouchered_Animal_Communication_Signals|iDigBio summary]]
|valign="top"|VACS will digitize and make accessible media recordings associated with physical voucher specimens, broadly organized around the research theme of understanding the evolution and ecology of communication signals.  
|valign="top"|VACS will digitize and make accessible media recordings associated with physical voucher specimens, broadly organized around the research theme of understanding the evolution and ecology of communication signals.  
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