General resourcesConferences & workshops
- Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum
- iEvoBio, wiki [bringing together biologists with software developers, and mathematicians]
- Symposium on the Digitization of Swedish Natural History Collections
- Biodiversity Informatics Horizons 2013
- Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference, 2-4 July 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Investing in a national infrastructure to digitize Swedish Natural History collections (Jan 2014, GBIF-Sweden)
- ARKive [photographic resource for conservation and the environment]
- Living Atlas of Australia [information on all known species in Australia]
- Pests and Diseases Image Library [PaDIL] [high quality images and Information focusing on Australia]
- SCAN (Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network) [primarily US southwestern insect collections]
- SpeciesLink [Brazilian biological collections]
- Biodiversity data publishing [VertNet presentation by Laura Russell]
- Current Best Practices for Publishing Trees Electronically - Draft release by TDWG.
- DataONE Best Practices [with a primer and a management guide]
- DMP Tool [Guidance and resource for data management plan]
- Journal Club 3.0
- List of online courses and resources for data management and curation
- Sharing and delivery of reusable phylogenetic knowledge [TDWG]
- Circos ["ideal for creating publication-quality infographics and illustrations with a high data-to-ink ratio"
- Data visualization by Daniel Evanko [great summary of data visualization methods]
- Martin Krzywinski [works on problems in data visualization applied to cancer research and genome analysis]
- Visualising Data [personal website of Andy Kirk, a UK-based freelance data visualisation specialist]
- Arizona map collections [1] [2] [the most comprehensive collection of AZ maps I can find online]
- Conservation GIS data by the Nature Conservancy
- Ecoregions of North America [with downloadable PDF and GIS files]
- G200 maps
- MapMaker [enables cropping of maps]
- National Atlas (US)
- Natural Earth [Free vector and raster maps]
- Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World @ Worldwildlife.org
- Wildfinder
- Worldclim.org - Global Climate Data
- Digital Curation Manual - Instalment on ontologies
- Use of Ontologies for Data Integration and Curation
- ComTax - Community Driven Curation for Taxonomic Databases
- CReATIVE-B [provides a platform for discussion on technological level, community integration level as well as governance, legal and financial levels]
- Data Observation Network for Earth [aims to ensure the preservation, access, use and reuse of science data via three primary cyberinfrastucture elements]
- Digital Curation Center [a world-leading centre of expertise in digital information curation with a focus on building capacity, capability and skills for research data management]
- iDigBio Integrated Digitized Biocollections
- National Phenology Network
- Small Collections Network [an iDigBio initiative devoted to supporting small to moderately sized natural history collections]
- South African National Biodiversity Institute
- FilteredPush [aims to connect remote sites to allow for annotations of natural history collections]
- Open-up.eu - Opening Up the Natural History Heritage for Europeana
- Taxonomy Research & Information Network; Wiki [address critical gaps in taxonomic knowledge of key Australian animal and plant groups]
- Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem @ Free University of Berlin [an extensive list of current projects]
- Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory (BioVel)
- DELTA (Sample file)
- NeXML [an exchange standard for representing phyloinformatic data; inspired by the NEXUS format, but more robust and easier to process (publication)]
- VoSeq [DNA sequence and voucher management for phylogenetic projects]