US-Support for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility

0301149这个奖项是美国为总部设在丹麦哥本哈根的多边组织全球生物信息基金提供的五年资助。GBIF是一项协调一致的国际科学努力，旨在使世界各地的用户能够发现和使用大量的全球生物多样性数据。GBIF将开发一个生物多样性数据库和相关信息技术工具的可互操作网络。GBIF的近期发展将集中在物种和标本水平的数据上。中期开发将集中于内容的扩展、搜索引擎的进一步改进以及将不同来源的数据结合在一起的工具。从长远来看，GBIF将提供一个门户，能够同时查询生物多样性、分子、遗传、生态和生态系统一级的数据库，这将促进和实现具有前所未有的实用和科学价值的“数据挖掘”。

0301149 LaneThis award provides five years of U.S. support for the Global Biological Information Facility (GBIF), a multilateral organization headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. GBIF is a coordinated international scientific effort to enable users throughout the world to discover and put to use vast quantities of global biodiversity data. GBIF will develop an interoperable network of biodiversity databases and related information technology tools. Near term GBIF developments will focus on species- and specimen-level data. Mid-term development will concentrate on expansion of content, additional improvements of search engines and tools to combine data from different sources. In the long term, GBIF will provide a portal that enables simultaneous queries against biodiversity, molecular, genetic, ecological and ecosystem level databases, which will facilitate and enable "data mining" of unprecedented utility and scientific merit.