GBIF Vocabulary Server

GBIF Vocabulary Server

The GBIF Vocabulary Server (Harman et al, 2009) is developed using Drupal 6 and the Scratchpads (Smith et al, 2009) of the ViBRANT project and was first released in 2009. The recently established Vocabulary Management Task Group (VoMaG) has initially recommended to build Darwin Core extensions and controlled value vocabularies for the GBIF infrastructure based on the reuse of terms and concepts from RDF vocabularies. The GBIF Vocabulary Server is designed to provide a software tool for collaborative development of Darwin Core extensions and controlled vocabularies.

http://kos.gbif.org/images/illustrations/GBIF_Vocabularies_extensions.png

References

Harman KT, R Hyam, DP Remsen (2009). Vocabularies - Managing Them. Proceedings of TDWG 2009 Available at http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/article/view/605

Smith VS, SD Rycroft, KT Harman, B Scott, and D Roberts (2009). Scratchpads: a data-publishing framework to build, share and manage information on the diversity of life. BMC Bioinformatics 10 (Suppl 14) p. S6. DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S6. Available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/S14/S6

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