Information
- Type
- Project
- Name
- SCAR-Marine Biodiversity Information Network
- Acronym
- SCAR-MarBIN
- Description @en
- SCAR-MarBIN (SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network) establishes and supports a distributed system of interoperable databases, forming the Antarctic Regional OBIS Node, under the aegis of SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research).
SCAR-MarBIN compiles and manages existing and new information on Antarctic marine biodiversity by coordinating, supporting, completing and optimizing database networking. This information will in turn be sent to larger biodiversity initiatives such as OBIS - the information component of the Census of Marine Life (COML)- and GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). SCAR-MarBIN data policy protocols align with the Antarctic Treaty (Art. III.1) and IPY requirements, as well as data management protocols of GBIF and OBIS.
- Start date
- 2006-5
- End date
- 2010-1
Expertise
- Antarctica
- defined term set: ASFA Geoterms
- term code: 182214
- Biodiversity
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9471
- Databases
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 2102
- Marine
- defined term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus
- term code: 75944
- geographic terms
- Antarctica