Van de Putte A, Youdjou N, Danis B [year accessed]. The Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility. World Wide Web publication, available online at http://www.biodiversity.aq
Abstract
Funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office, biodiversity.aq is building an innovative Antarctic biodiversity information system, giving access to a distributed network of contributing databases, according to the principles of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. It is building a new data discovery tool using two complementary networks and will expand these by using an advanced technical architecture, capable of linking with many potential data resources.
biodiversity.aq is recognised as an official SCAR Product and integrates SCAR-MarBIN (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research - Marine Biodiversity Information Network), with the biodiversity databases managed by the Australian Antarctic Division, bringing together data from marine and terrestrial realms.