Biodiversitätsinformatik / Biodiversity Informatics
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem

Access to distributed biological collection information
(ENHSIN experimental prototype)

This is an experimental interface providing common access to distributed biological collection information (specimen level). The queries are propagated to XML wrapped collection databases which return the result sets as specified in a common document type definition (DTD). The interface collects the returned XML data and displays them to the User as a simple table.

Document type definition | Description of data sources | Implementation | The Network
Examples for correct input in the right column.

plants animals all	Select taxonomic group.
Genus	Type in Genus and a wildcard if needed (Example: Ba*).
Species epithet	Type in Species epithet and a wildcard if needed (Example: pa*).
Collected from the field between year and	Type in a time interval as a pair of 4 digit numbers.
Collector's name	Type in collector's name and a wildcard if needed (Example: Sip*).
Country (ISO 3166)	Select a country to restrict your search geographically.
Precision	Choose 'Exact matches only' to make the system search in well structured fields only. 'Fuzzy retrieval' will additionally search in less structured fields.
Max number of hits per collection 5 10 25 50	Choose the maximum number of returned records per collection and submit the query.

BGBM Überblick / Overview

Abt. Biodiversitätsinformatik /
Dept. of Biodiversity Informatics

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Access to distributed biological collection information (ENHSIN experimental prototype)

Access to distributed biological collection information
(ENHSIN experimental prototype)