meta data for this page
  •  

This is an old revision of the document!



:!: Warning :!:: These wiki pages are under construction and are subject to change. The content presented here is part of the ongoing certification of the ZFMK Data Center with the Core Trust Seal, which is expected to be completed in the first half of 2021.


ZFMK Data Center

The ZFMK Data Center is constituted by the Biodiversity Informatics section and the IT department at ZFMK. It is therewith part of the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK). The GFBio data center is part of the ZFMK Data Center.

The data center provides data-flows, tools and services for ZFMK's research collections that have a focus on the terrestrial fauna with a worldwide coverage.

One of the collections is the Biobank that offers a specialized storage facility for the long-term storage of Tissue and DNA samples and is connected to the Global Genome Network.

All data are stored in the collection management framework Diversity Workbench (:!:mit Link hinterlegt diversityworkbench.net) including field- and collection data, as well as sequence and trace data from the German Barcode of Life project.

The Morphological Description and Multimedia Database Morph·D·Base is developed in the :!:Biodiversity Informatics:!: section and housed at ZFMK and is used for storing, archiving and dissemination of scientific multimedia content.

Data are published using the ABCD standard and the BioCASe Provider Software.

Scientific data curation services (incl. taxonomic services)

The taxonomic expertise and interest is that of the ZFMK.

Special expertise in various groups of terrestrial animals exists. It is a precondition to successfully serve the GBIF-D Node Vertebrates.

Located at the ZFMK is Morph·D·Base - The Morphological Description Database. Morph·D·Base is a database driven online platform for scientists for sharing their data privately and with the public. It allows the long-term storage of various kinds of media (e.g., images. 3d-stacks of images. movies, etc.). Morph·D·Base functions as an archive and publication plattform for media from various research projects (e.g. the German Barcode of Life Project and the Freshwater Identification for Europe, FREDIE) as well as the collections within the ZFMK.

Data domains

Our first preference is to manage data of the collection domain. Apart from this we are specialized to manage, store and archive observation/monitoring data.

IT services

Data submission and accession:

  • Mapping services for DiversityCollection Import

Data integration and management:

  • Diversity Workbench Metadata data bases and repositories; remote data management by researchers possible, see: Diversity Workbench Client Software(link is external).
  • Morph·D·Base and easyDB multimedia data repository.

Data publication:

  • Metadata on species occurences: collections.zfmk.de, Europeana, and GBIF Data publisher
  • Media: Morph·D·Base and easyDB