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GBIF

GBIF is a biodiversity data website and international open data infrastructure for finding species occurrence records, datasets, publishers, taxonomic information, APIs, and tools for biodiversity research.

Official site
gbif.org is the main public website for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Product focus
GBIF focuses on species occurrences, datasets, publishers, participant networks, biodiversity data standards, downloads, and APIs.
Institutional role
GBIF describes itself as an international network and data infrastructure funded by governments and coordinated through its Secretariat in Copenhagen.
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What GBIF is

GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, is a biodiversity data website at gbif.org. It provides open access to data about life on Earth through an international network of participating countries, organizations, data publishers, and technical tools.

Open biodiversity infrastructure

The core idea is that biodiversity records become more useful when they can be discovered, cited, downloaded, and reused through shared standards. GBIF helps museums, herbaria, monitoring projects, research groups, government agencies, and community science platforms publish biodiversity data in a common ecosystem.

Species occurrence data

A large part of GBIF is built around species occurrence records: evidence that an organism was recorded at a particular place and time. Occurrences may come from preserved specimens, field observations, monitoring projects, literature, community science, camera traps, DNA-derived records, and other sources.

Datasets and publishers

GBIF records point back to datasets and publishers, which matters because users need provenance. A map point or download is not just a dot; it has a source, license, method, taxonomic interpretation, location precision, date, and quality flags that shape how it should be used.

Publishing data

GBIF supports data publishing through standards, tools, and guidance. Its data publishing materials emphasize helping institutions share datasets that can be discovered and retrieved through GBIF.org, web services, and associated biodiversity data standards.

API and downloads

The GBIF API reference gives developers programmatic access to biodiversity data and services. Researchers and software teams use these interfaces for occurrence downloads, species searches, data quality workflows, ecological modeling, dashboards, and reproducible research pipelines.

Data quality and limits

GBIF data is powerful, but it is not analysis-ready for every question. Users often need to filter records, check coordinates, inspect licenses, handle duplicate records, account for sampling bias, understand taxonomic updates, and protect sensitive species locations.

Why it matters

GBIF matters because biodiversity decisions depend on evidence about where organisms occur, how records change over time, and which sources support those claims. Open infrastructure makes that evidence easier to find, cite, improve, and reuse in science, policy, conservation, education, and public communication.

WHOIS domain data

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Domain
gbif.org
IP address
130.225.43.34
Registrar
Amazon Registrar, Inc.
WHOIS server
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Referral URL
http://registrar.amazon.com
Created
July 26, 1999
Updated
May 5, 2026
Expires
July 26, 2026
Nameservers
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DNSSEC
unsigned
Contact privacy
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