India Biodiversity Portal: An integrated, interactive and participatory biodiversity informatics platform

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Vattakaven, Thomas and George, Rohit and Balasubramanian, Dhandapani and Réjou-Méchain, Maxime and Muthusankar, Gowrappan and Ramesh, Brahmasamudra and Prabhakar, R (2016) India Biodiversity Portal: An integrated, interactive and participatory biodiversity informatics platform. Biodiversity Data Journal, 4. e10279. ISSN 1314-2836

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e10279

Abstract

This paper describes a growing biodiversity platform, launched in 2008, which organizes knowledge on the biodiversity of India. The main objective and originality of the India Biodiversity Portal (IBP) is to aggregate curated biodiversity data of different kinds (e.g. distribution maps, temporal distribution or life history) in an integrated platform where amateurs and experts can easily interact.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright of this paper belongs to the authors
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Biodiversity informatics, Biodiversity, Biodiversity data, Species distribution, Species information, Citizen science, Crowd-sourcing, Data, Information technology, Open data, Conservation, Public participation in scientific research, India
Subjects:	A ATREE Publications > G Journal Papers
Divisions:	The Himalaya Initiative > The Himalaya Initiative
Depositing User:	ATREE Bangalore
Date Deposited:	29 Oct 2024 05:52
Last Modified:	29 Oct 2024 05:52
URI:	http://archives.atree.org/id/eprint/225

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