Collection Citation
| Collection Title | Ocean Biogeographic Information System | ||
| Collection Sponsor | USDOE | ||
| Other Sponsors | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (founding sponsor) and many others | ||
| Host Website | iobis.org | ||
| Other Related Organizations | DOE Joint Genome Institute | ||
| Main Content Type | Specialized Mix | ||
| Subject Categories | 59 - BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES | ||
| Keywords | Marine life; Oceans; Seas; Species; Global Biodiversity; Census | ||
| Description | The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) was established by the Census of Marine Life program. It is an evolving strategic alliance of people and organizations sharing a vision to make marine biogeographic data, from all over the world, freely available over the World Wide Web. It is not a project or program, and is not limited to data from CoML-related projects. Any organization, consortium, project or individual may contribute. OBIS provides, on an ‘open access’ basis through the World Wide Web taxonomically and geographically resolved data on marine life and the ocean environment, interoperability with similar databases, and software tools for data exploration and analysis. The OBIS secretariat is hosted by Rutgers University, Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences. [Copied, then edited from http://www.iobis.org/about/] | ||
| DDE Number | DDE00387 | ||
| Special Interface | Yes | ||
| Registration_Required | No |
